Is There Life After Grad School?

"In the secret hour of life's midday the parabola is reversed, death is born. The second half of life does not signify ascent, unfolding, increase, exuberence, but death, since the end is the goal. The negation of life's fulfillment is synonymous with the refusal to accept its ending. Both mean not wanting to live, and not wanting to live is identical to with not wanting to die. Waxing and waning make one curve."