Life isn’t about the pain. It’s about the good parts. Think about it like… laser tag!” She brightened even as I forced a laugh. I could see the cheesy metaphor coming before she even began. “Like, I bet it’d be super easy to go a whole round without getting shot. You’d just have to hide in some corner where no one ever goes and sit there and do nothing. But that makes for a boring game of laser tag, and so no one does that, right? We all run around and put ourselves at risk so that maybe we’ll have some fun! See, life is like laser tag.”
