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We deceive and betray ourselves every time we presume there is a better moment to celebrate, to be grateful, or to find fulfillment. Every set of challenges that you face now will inevitably be replaced by another set of challenges, and if it in any way follows the pattern of the human condition, those future challenges will be even more difficult and even more numerous. Not only that, but our minds, our corporeal flesh degrades by the day.

With how fast life passes us by in our perception of it,

with how wayward the circumstances of this world are,

and with how endless our suffering and toil is,

how can now—yes, right now—not be the best time to be happy?