You always liked to talk about how life was a series of disappointments and hostile to the humans who lived it, even while you were comfortable at school doing things you knew you were good at, and didn’t have to worry about providing for yourself. Now times are tough, you do have to worry about those things, and your cheerful fatalism seems a little naive, doesn’t it? Well, remember what you always said when those things came up and you were oh-so-eager to share your insight: you’ll always end up hating life if you think it’s about being rewarded for your hard work or outstanding talents, because you usually won’t be. If you’re going to see life for what it is, without any illusions, and still want to go on living it for its own sake, you have to live to appreciate what’s beatuiful, especially in the way that hideously ugly things are beautiful. That means the ugliness of people angry over a misunderstanding, missed oppurunities because you’re too scared or lazy, worrying about having enough money just to go out at night, and all of that. That’s what you told yourself most of life was, and that’s what you see it is now. So remember your own advice, now that it’s going to do you some good.
Love,
Yourself
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