FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2023
Once again, what is life about? It’s a struggle for survival, and for some degree of happiness to make the struggle worth it. And at the end, you hope you don’t die a painful death. And when you are dead, a few people will miss you for a period of time, but the rest of the world will continue as if you were never alive.
These are cold, hard facts.
But one is tempted to wonder if the pill is not a little too black to swallow.
The key is in the degree of luck.
There are also different degrees of survival. If you are optimistic and you believe in the wide range of possibilities available to lead a good life, your survival can be relatively comfortable – from the food you feast on three to five times a day, to the drinks you pour down your throat, to the bedding you sleep under, and the amount of time you spend exploring the world and with your loved ones and friends.
The quality of your survival also contributes to your sense of happiness.
And if you assist other people in their struggle for survival and their efforts to make life worth living, it increases your own awareness of a life worth living.
However, the ending is usually not your choice.
Which makes it that much more important to be happy before the end comes – slow and gruelling, or mercifully quick.
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