But man, you have to put up the effort. That’s part of being human: That arrogant little part of you that says you’re special, that you can beat it, that when the time comes, it won’t happen to you—you and you alone are immune! We all have that delusion. It’s one of the core concepts of humanity, as a species. And it’s hardly ever correct. But at least I’d spent twenty years preparing to be wrong. Two decades stitching one very simple, fundamental idea into my being—and then systematically erasing every part that even remembered why.
