Concerning Cognac & Life

Life is good. I just gave my thesis advisor a very expensive cognac, and he suggested that we should enjoy a glass. This was quite unexpected; if you knew my thesis advisor, and I don't expect you to, he is the type of guy who would be appreciative, but he would still take it home never thinking of letting a starving student share in the pleasures of fine distilled French wine. So when I bought the bottle all I could think of was how much I wanted just one glass, and now I'm going to get it.

As good as that is, that is not the only reason life is good. Sure I'll be out of a job in three weeks. Sure I don't have an apartment, so I'll have to beg to sleep at my dad's house for a while. Those are objective evils, but for some reason I think that every thing is going to work out fine. I have no idea why I think this, and to the best of my knowledge there is no precedent for things turning out for the better. All the same life, even when your dirt poor, is a whole lot of fun. Being really is better than non being. I just know that this cognac thing is indicative of life in general. You never get the whole bottle you paid for, but you might get one glass; which in some cases (jobs, apartments, love, cognac) makes up for it.