But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, the most well intentioned of beings, the most pure of heart and soul. How is it fair that we all the same lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy? To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.