Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?