Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

They never say 'that's life' when good things happen, because, well, that's not life. I think a sense of nihilism helps to where you just don't take things too seriously anymore. Especially when you're numb to it. You kind of find the humor in the ****ed up things that happen, make jokes that helps digest some of the bitter pieces of life with out making you sick. I stopped hoping for better things and expect nothing but the worst, but I try hard to create moments that will make me look back and laugh with those around me despite the hell life throws at us.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.