Themes
You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
— Cynthia • Dazed and Confused
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker argues that if death comes for everyone anyway, people should enjoy themselves now. They want to stop treating the present as a minor, unimportant lead-in to something later. The reasoning is casual: the value of life is in the moment being lived.
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