The juice is not worth the squeeze
That is not an original quote or thought. I heard it while streaming live my daily go-to source of news and current affairs - C-SPAN . For whatever reason the quote stuck in my sub-conscious and triggered a deep dive self-reflection mentally on the full meaning and import of the quote - "The Juice is not worth the squeeze - the end game is not commesurate with the load up front". It then led me to ponder the real purpose of life? That is a million dollar question whose answer or response depends on the respondent. Personally though, I think the purpose of life is a sum zero game in the sense that - if you look at it really critically, it is all for nothing - it is all vanity. I am not sure the Earth - nay the universe - is adversely affected one way or the other if we were alive or dead. We are given birth to (or conceived in a petri dish and nutured to full term outside of the womb) , we strive to become somebody or something in life - we strive for success and if s...