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Disappointments mount while expectations dwindle. Is that the only sage advice life has to offer?
It could have done better than that.

A long journey as this and this is all we learn in a nutshell. Stories are many morals only a few. 

Life: a cautionary tale. 

Life: live at your own peril

Life: you've been warned

and yet, this is what we cling to most dearly because what are we if not hopeful?