Fate plays all sorts of games with us, but who are we to second guess the sundry, peculiar twists and turns our lives regularly encounter? It is best not trying to understand life—It is intrinsically impossible to “understand” anyway—but rather just accept the random oddities and perceived bad luck that you may experience on a daily basis and react to those barbs and thorns the best way you know how. Live your life without any expectations and be happy for it. Adapt to the vagaries of life that come your way—many times unexpectedly—because rest guaranteed those scoundrels are innately contumacious and will not adapt to you. Far too much time is wasted struggling to understand the “meaning” of life when in reality there is no deep-seated meaning. Life is to live, not understand. Life is a question, not an answer. Life is an unfinished manuscript, not a polished memoir. Life is a riddle, not a bon mat. Attaching more significance to life than this is not only supercilious, but highly counterproductive. The common currency of life is irrefutably time, and a human being shouldn’t squander splendid finite minutes contemplating that which has no more transcendent meaning than eating, breathing, thinking, sleeping, copulating, loving…..just being!
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