Earlier today I jokingly informed a friend that she eats way too much junk food to be healthy.
She shrugged and said, "We're all gonna die anyways."
And that attitude is what I want to address in this post.
"We're going to die anyways, so why not do whatever?" everyone ALWAYS says. And that really, REALLY annoys me. I'm not going to argue against the fact that everyone's going to die (it would be a straight up lie to argue against it) but it doesn't seem like a logical excuse to treat life carelessly.
All right, so like... why watch a movie if it's just going to end?
People don't watch films for the fact that they end (???????), they watch them for the story. And so it is with life. We're here for the story.
And I don't mean for this to be a "it's what you do in life that defines its worth" but more of a "okay, everyone knows we're going to die, but how does that even mean that you shouldn't try in life?"
This wasn't written in a well-structured way. But I'm exhausted and just thinking about the stupidity of this perspective is making me real irritated.
So I'll leave with this quote I found. And, now that I think about it, the quote is relatively irrelevant, but I really like it anyways, so here it is.
"You only live once? False. You live every day. You only die once."
