There are countless perils in life, no matter where you go, and no matter what you do, those perils follow you around.

Your own death, your own impending death follows you around. You can't escape it. Okay, walk around every corner and it's there.

Go to sleep at night. It's sleeping right next to your own Because we're all going to die, every single one of us.

And there's nothing you can do about it, not one single thing.

You will be decomposing in the ground in the not too distant future.

That is a reality.

It just is.

I'm sorry, but it is.

No, we really think that like everything we go through, every little thing we, every little or big thing that we go through, we think it's, well, this is the worst thing ever. This is the worst thing that ever happened to anybody.

And it can be helpful to realize that nothing we're going through is new.

People have been experiencing and surviving in spite of all of these sorts of things all through history.

There has never been a time of utopian peace and tranquility.

That sort of existence is simply not on offer.

It's not available to us.

It's not in the catalog, right, of when you're a mortal human being.

Life has never been easy.

The life that we're given right now is as close to easy as humanity has ever gotten.

And we can't stop complaining about it. So what does that

tell you? We're so obsessively focused on our own stress. We think about our stress all the time.

We talk about it. We like to tell people. We like to say to people, oh, I'm so stressed out. I'm so

busy. Here's what's happening in my life. We go around telling people how stressed out we are.

You know, I said earlier that you should go back in time in a time machine and ask somebody

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