The old man told me about life on this planet.

“It’s not pretty” he said.

“You are born in ignorance. You spend 20 years earning how to stand on your own 2 feet.

You spend 20 years earning a living while trying desperately to hold your family together.

You spend the next 20 years immersed in other peoples problems.

Then it gets worse. The next 20 will see your body slowly break down, your mind lose it’s sharpness and your friends and relatives dying around you.

In the end you die under tragic circumstances. Nobody dies in a happy situation.

And you wonder why I mock people who say that life is a gift! Life is mean and it gets worse as you travel further into it!”