I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.