What about the future?
As far as we know, we have this life.
There could be others. Maybe we reincarnate and maybe we don’t. Maybe there is a heaven and a hell, and/or a Valhalla and a Hel, or whatever, or maybe there’s this one short life followed by eternal death; we don’t know.
All facts known to us is that we’ve been gifted this one life, and we have to live with it; Deal with our mistakes and take the consequences of our actions, because there is no undo button in this life. (We have to manually try to make things right).
Every decision we do make shuts the doors to other possibilities which might never open again, and we cannot move back, only forward.
There’s also a very real risk we could be struck dead by lightning or some internal organ failure, or succumb to some freak accident or whatever, because life is brittle. It can be taken away from us any time.
Life is short and brittle but death is possibly eternal.
Remember that people tend to regret the things they didn’t do rather than the mistakes they’ve made (this I’ve read on the Internet) and that’s the true meaning of YOLO, Carpe Diem and memento mori is just that (this is my understanding anyhow. I am of about average intellect so you might want to do your own research and teach your own conclusions about this).
Looking at all of these facts, it makes me really want to go give C# a shot. Finally. It does seem to have many nifty features and the syntax looks really neat, and it’s general purpose and runs on my Ubuntu box, but I’ve just never gotten around to it.
I’ll give it a shot later.