Suffering

Perhaps, people were simply meant to suffer.

I guess, the whole problem exists because of the tenses. For starters, take the present. The present, whether anyone likes it or not, is forced upon us. There’s nothing we can do about it. By the time anybody figures out what it’s all about, it’s gone. Then there’s the past. This doesn’t exist either. How much of it is actually remembered depends on the individual. When all is said and done, it’s not around anymore. As for the future, a lot of it can be foretold. However, the fact that none of it has happened indicates strongly that this also doesn’t exist. It is all of these combined that bring about a great deal of angst and suffering for we that have to put up with it!

All this is why people, in particular, those in densely populated places such as major cities and the small but overcrowded village of Bundling-on-the-Wold, are so often found to be unhappily mumbling to themselves.