This TED Talk features philosopher and comic Emily Levine, recorded live at TED 2018.

I am going to first tell you something that in my grandmother would have elicited a five-oi alarm.

Oy, yoy, yoy, y, y, y, y, y, and here it is. Are you ready? Okay. I have stage four lung cancer. Oh, I know for me. I don't feel that way. I'm so okay with it. And granted, I have certain advantages. Not everybody can take so cavalier an attitude.

I don't have young children.

I have a grown daughter who's brilliant and happy and wonderful.

I don't have huge financial stress.

My cancer isn't that aggressive.

It's kind of like the democratic leadership.

Not convinced it can win. It's basically just sitting there, waiting for Goldman Sachs to give it some money.

Oh, and the best thing of all, I have a major accomplishment under my belt.

Yes, I didn't even know it until someone tweeted me a year ago.

And here's what they said.

You are responsible for the pusification of the American male.

Not that I can take all the credit, but...

But what if you don't have my advantages?

The only advice I can give you is to do what I did.

Make friends with reality.

You couldn't have a worse relationship with reality than I did.

From the get-go, I wasn't even attracted to reality. If they'd had Tinder when I met reality,

I would have swipe left and the whole thing would have been over.

And reality and I, we don't share the same values, the same goals.

To be honest, I don't have goals.

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