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Why am I a Pessimist?

“Once more, the apparently contrary emotions of joy and sorrow have been fused, so that the one, far from undoing its opposite, reinforces it, becomes an element in its full expression. Each new joy is the crown of its predecessor, so that emotion itself is related to the inclusive effect of majesty; at the same time , this joy expresses itself in tears, in a sorrow which ‘wept to take leave of them’ in the moment of being replaced by the joy of new discovery.” -         -   Shakespeare:  The Last Phase by Derek Traversi Eternal rest as they say when someone dies. Rest is what makes any person happy after toil but that is rest for a moment. Even so, it makes any man who had exerted so much calm and enjoys a good and happy idle moment. When man is always at rest then he is dead. He is dead for he has already ceased to move. Life ends when motion eternally ends. Life is all about struggle to survive and that in itself is motion. When that activity stops, life stops and death