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I have two entire chapters of The Graysonian Ethic dedicated to pointing out how fleeting your 20s (and maybe your 30s) are and the need to build something with your natural gifts while you can. Life is awfully long past that, and your god given gifts will fade and need to be replaced with something you've built for yourself, whether that be knowledge, wisdom, cultivated relationships, even personal infrastructure.

Writing about dying alone in squalor and nobody cares was one of the hardest things I've ever written, and it's still one of the hardest things out there for me to read. On the other hand, I'm already starting to see it regarding some acquaintances of mine who are heading down that road.

People think humans evolutionary advantage is our intelligence, but that came later. Our first advantage is we have the highest endurance of any creature out there. We can chase down most animals long after they're exhausted and when they collapse. That carries into the modern day where nothing has more determination than a human and even someone who isn't strong, isn't smart, isn't beautiful can fight for a long time to have something meaningful in their lives and achieve it, but they need to choose to, and do so with faith that if you fight long enough you'll win at least sometimes.