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Nick, sorry to hear bud, but life is only as good as one perceives it.
You didn't get hit by a bus. You didn't have a heart attack. A piano didn't land on your head. You weren't diagnosed with bone cancer. You weren't born in Somalia. You catch my drift... What is it that makes us expect to just cruise through 8-9 decades of life blissfully and trouble-free?
Coming from someone dealing with randomness for a living, people keep underestimating the randomness of the world around them, even the randomness inherent to our own selves. It's so human to think that we're in control. Millions of muscles, cells, molecules, atoms, being at the right time and the right place so that we wake up every morning expecting things to be the way we want them to be. If we all lowered our expectations to better reflect reality, perhaps we wouldn't be so bugged when crap happens to us. And crap always happens, but we have the choice on how much we allow it to affect us. Just IMO.
Z.
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