Is it worth it? he wondered. This shitshow we call life – in-game or out. All this pain and stress and fear and bullshit? Never knowing whether you’re doing the right thing. The wrong thing? Or whether any of it even really matters.
I once read, or heard, something describing all the things men do, which screws up our lives, as being the result of "fucked up men fucking up in a fucked up world." The phrase stuck with me because I think there's a heavy dose of truth in it.