“Don’t take life too seriously”

This is a phrase that is incredibly easy to say for the privileged, the ignorant, and the oblivious, and simultaneously a phrase that is incredibly difficult to say for the victims of sexual assault, racial oppression, devastating wars and conflicts, cancers and other diseases, or any other form of abject and unjust suffering that could have likely been prevented if everyone took things a little more seriously.  

No—not every one of us has to necessarily directly do anything about it, as we all have our own roles to play within the societies we live in. But let it nonetheless imbue our consciousness with a certain kind of desperation, imparting upon us a reason for all that we do.