There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.