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If you don’t have a lofty ambition, then you suffer miserably. And the reason for that is life is really complex, short, finite, full of suffering, and beyond you. And so you can just lay there and think about that, and it’s horrible. And so that’s not helpful, it’s just not useful. And so, you know, people often say, life is meaningless. It’s like, no it’s not. That’s wrong. Because if it was meaningless, that’d be easy. You could just sit there and do nothing, and it wouldn’t matter, right? It’d be like you were like a lobotomized sheep. It’s just irrelevant. But that isn’t what happens. When people say that life has no meaning, that isn’t what they mean. What they mean is, I’m suffering stupidly and intensely, and I don’t know what to do about it. Well, the suffering is meaningful, it’s just not the kind of meaning you want. So how do you get out of that? You note the baseline of suffering, which is very, very, very, very high. And then you say to yourself, okay, I need to do something that justifies that.