Seguido as often?
So we usually hear
a menudo
as often
but
en seguida
as
quickly
but check this out
Hay lados más brillantes para vivir y lo debería saber, porque los he visto pero no muy seguido
There are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often. (english lyrics)
I see seguido which I know as like, continuous, and I see it can be often too? I wonder how often it's used instead of a menudo?
Also "más brillantes para vivir" seems really odd instead of "más brillantes en la vida" and seems more like "Brighter ways to live".
Gracias.
9 Answers
OK.
Seguido = one after the other/another/following/continued. (yes?)
En seguida = right away/right now
Hay lados más brillantes para vivir
There are brighter places (where) to live...
EDIT: added "are"
So life cannot have sides because a side is a physical thing.
These aren't referring to physical sides:
todo tiene su lado bueno y su lado malo - there's a good side and a bad side to everything
ver el lado positivo de las cosas- to look on the bright side of things;
va a todos lados en bus - she goes everywhere by bus;
dejar a algn de lado - to leave someone out of something
plus there's heaps more 
Is it possible to say "there are righter sides to life"?
Yes, of course It's done all the time, isn't it?.
. . .life cannot have sides. . .
Yes. It can.
. . . because a side is a physical thing.
No. Not necessarily.
"Side," in English, is an abstract term as well as one referring to the concrete or physical: two sides to an issue, argument, or story, etc.
Likewise in Spanish, as Kiwi has aptly shown.
Uh.... or did I miss something here?
I've seen 'vienen seguido a visitarnos' / they often come to visit us
I think Chileno may have fully answered this correctly, but I just want to make sure that both sides (geddit, geddit? 
) of this question are fully clarified. The following statements mean completely different things:
Hay lados más brillantes para vivir y lo debería saber, porque los he visto pero no muy seguido
There are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often.
The first sentence means: There are brighter places (locations) to live, and I should know, because I have seen them - just not very often.
The second sentence, translated to Spanish would be:
La vida tiene ángulos / aspectos / momentos más brillantes, y lo debería saber porque los he visto, pero no muy seguido.
Yes you can use "lados" with life: Estás viendo sólo el lado malo de la vida, ¿pero te has fijado en todo lo bueno que tienes?
Sólo le ves el lado negativo a las cosas. Deberías ser más optimista.
From a physical point of view, "lados" can also mean "places", not just sides.
Jeezle no es de por estos lados. (Jeezle is not from around these parts).
No, eso no es aquí, eso está en otro lado. No, that (location, business, whatever) is not here, that's somehwere else.
Yes, it does, but it changes the first phrase. You are saying something else. I was more concerned because you didn't see the place part of it.
Here is not used that way, anyway.
hmmm, I know what you mean.
No.
Check the following link
part 2
EDIT:
I said no, to what you thought it should be saying...
Is it possible to say "there are brighter sides to life"? That's what it sides in english. Like the moon has a dark side and a bright side. There are brighter sides to life, time's when life is brighter, but not very many times. That is what it should be trying to say.
So life cannot have sides because a side is a physical thing. So it should be "Hay partes más brillantes en la vida y lo debería saber, porque los he visto pero no muy seguido"?
Or does partes not work figuratively either?
Gracias.
