"I Want to Live!"
Throw Away
It occurs to me today that perhaps the proper antidote to the Existenial Outlook i.e. the view, probably correct, for whatever correctness is worth, that life is a designless, purposeless, generally mostly painful grand cosmic joke is to regard life instead as an opportunity. Specifically, a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime (once forever, for all time, actually) opportunity to do things that are either:
- Fun; or
- Useful