I spoke of this last year in a teisho and there were a couple of people who said that I left them depressed and all, but come on, boo hoo, we're not always going to be around. There was a short piece in Zen Bow last year that I think is so much to the point. It was written in 1948 by CS Lewis. He called this piece "On living in an atomic age." Okay, so this was long after the previous pandemic in 1918-1919. And herein 1948 everyone was waking up to the threat of annihilation through atomic war. And he points out "In one way, we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb." And then he poses a question that many people were posing, "How are we to live in an atomic age?" And then he himself answers "I am tempted to reply. Why, as you would have lived in the 16th century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking Age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night. or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents." And then he says, "In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, Dear Sir, or Madam, you and all whom you love, were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented. And quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. It's perfectly ridiculous," he says, "to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and which in death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty."