Well, what I meant to say is the following:
Life isn't really all that nice...Hell, you're born, and you spend 12 years being a kid, and I'll bet people will say those are the best moments of your life...All your worries are concerning where to hide when you play hide and seek...
Then you enter your teenage years, and hormones start to get involved in the picture...Life becomes much more meaningful, and you start to over-dramatise every little aspect...
You then grow out of your teens, get a degree (or not), and work for the rest of your life, until you're old enough to retire...
Once you're retired, it's almost like reverting back to your childhood - no work, still have family and friends, a more relaxed attitude...The difference is that you're much more frail, both mentally and physically...
And then you die.
So, 80-odd years (in average) are spent living life. Approximately 45 of those years are spent working your arse off, be it for financial gain, intellectual gain or both; 13 are spent running around blissfully as a kid; approximately 15 are spent in aged care, on the pension being cared for by professionals; and 7 years are left for your transition from kid to teen...
So, when it all boils down...Life is rather meaningless on the face of it, n'est-ce pas?
HOWEVER, this does not take into consideration all of life's little pleasures - the things that make this at times dreadful existence meaningful. Things like watching your favourite sports; spending time with friends and family; spending quality time with that guy/girl who just is always on your mind; fathering/mothering your very own piece of genetic identity, and watching them claw their way up the chain of life to get their own start in this game we call existence...It is these things which make the often dull and difficult life we all deal with every day worth living. And it is those very things that you must keep trudging along for - even when life gets you down. Because, at the end of the day, at the end of this tunnel of life...There are times, places and people you want to look back upon with a smile.
(Like i said somewhere else)
