While alive shine Grieve none at all Life amounts to little Time demands the end We can either deny what the global magnitudes are, and forever suffer for not being able to exert control over them, or we can live peacefully in the knowledge that the cosmos does not revolve around us. Other forces contribute to this eventuality, which we may name “nature”, “the gods”, “the cosmos”… It does not matter what name we use, for as long as we recognise the underlying fact: our life is not “ours”—we have no involvement in the matter.