Good fun, then will come a career.

Something that pays but won't be done merely for money will be competent, respectable and fairly honored for the intensity of our efforts.

Alongside it will come a central relationship, probably a marriage.

The union will last forever and be marked by mutual satisfaction, sincere friendship and frequent passionate sex.

There'll be kids to offering us a chance to nurture a grateful, adorable small person the best of its two parents, whom we'll watch grow into an admirable, motivated adult.

With advances in science, we will lead an active and pain free life mentally and physically healthy into our early eighties.

At least our parents will themselves have died at an advanced age, and when the time comes for us, the end will be swift and painless.

This is more or less the kind of script were handed by a technologically advanced secular consumer society, and it's no wonder that in many moods we should want to cleave to it and trust it wholeheartedly.

But the truth never asserted as a general rule, never insisted upon in tones of suitable, melancholy solemnity is that no one gets through their allotted span on Earth without a major off script event.

Something somewhere is going to go catastrophically wrong, not potentially or incidentally, but necessarily because of the structure of human existence on of our appalling exposure, toe error, accident, madness, disgrace and illness.

Someone very important to us will die long before they should in horrific an entirely unexpected circumstances, or will suffer a significant reversal in professional life, probably triggered by a folly on our part and entrenched character floor, or just a collision with one of the very sharp edges of the business cycle or a central relationship will go wrong.

A child will develop a major grievance.

Someone whom we trusted entirely will betray all the hopes we'd lodged In them.

Illness and death will strike from the blue, a stroke on the airport concourse, cancerous cells in an unfeasible e young body Ah, hemorrhage that came at least 20 years too soon.

The permutations are as endless as they are ghastly.

We cannot know what it will be exactly.

What is certain is that it will be something an event committed Lee, disastrous in nature that will stop us in our tracks, make us question every resilient assumption and break our hearts.

The only guarantee is that we will not exit this life without a calamity if there is any defense or consolation to be found.

It lies, of course, in knowing the fact head on on preparing for it assiduously in the quieter stretches.

Two Philosophies is to learn to die.

Knew the French philosopher Mauretania, and he might have added to beam or all encompassing to suffer, too.

Expecting the unexpected.

Horror is the one move we can make to insulate ourselves a little from the vengefulness and wickedness of fortune.

We know that something will come, and when it happens, we shouldn't feel especially cursed.

Our lives may appear to have gone off script, but that's only because the script we were holding to with a sentimental lie we are, in fact, following the path that all humans must walk.

We should never feel persecuted for falling victim toe.

What is the repressed yet general truth?

It is, at least on the basis, off off script events that we can develop our deepest friendships, surrender our self righteousness, acquire the right kind of gallows humor and grow up.

Newly aware of the ubiquity of random disasters, we can start to appreciate the bits of our lives that are on script.

We can know just how much to cherish those quiet days in which nothing much has yet gone very wrong.

And when the off script event comes, we can at least say that we knew and realized a while back that this is just what it means to be human.

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