Daniel Priestley

But...

Every single time, it's just gotten better and better and better and bigger and bigger and more stable and more, like, reliable.

Here's the thing.

There are no happy endings.

Life ends abruptly.

One thing that happens when you get a little older is you start discovering that actually when you're under 40, you think everything ends well.

And then later on you discover there are no happy endings.

Everyone dies.

You get a phone call one day and someone who is an amazing person has a stroke.

And that's them hit.

That's it, what you thought of, that you thought they'd have 20 more years and they don't.

You know, their entire life changes.

You're left with the realisation that it's just an adventure.

Sometimes the happy ending that other people would call as a happy ending, an objective happy ending...

is actually pretty miserable in the middle of it.

There are people who have everything, you've met them, and objectively they have the houses and the cars and the private jets and all that sort of stuff and they're not particularly happy, they're miserable.

And then there are some people who they lose all of that stuff but then they reconnect with a group of friends and they're, like, happier than they've ever been.

Yeah, so someone very close to me, very dear to me, recently had a stroke, you know, and...

Yeah, you realize that the happy ending is not guaranteed.

In fact, the opposite is guaranteed.