Accept this: You don't have to prove anything to anybody, ever. Including yourself. - Mark Manson

If we were immortal, nothing would be special because nothing would be scarce or unattainable.

Meaning requires endings.

Because you can’t get rid of pain — pain is the universal constant of the human condition. Therefore, the attempt to move away from pain, to protect oneself from all harm, can only backfire. Trying to eliminate pain only increases your sensitivity to suffering, rather than alleviating your suffering. It causes you to see dangerous ghosts in every nook, to see tyranny and oppression in every authority, to see hate and deceit behind every embrace.

Change is terrifying, until you do it. Then it’s just your new normal.