I'm an optimistic cynic: life is shit sometimes, but that doesn't mean we can't party! Don't let the human race get you down. Somehow, someway, the smartest of our species will find a way to survive. Eventually, though the pace is moving glacially, we'll spread out to the stars where we'll disperse and the chances of us blowing ourselves up will diminish. Worried about nuclear bombs? We'll build underground cities and let the idiots nuke each other. Or floating space cities. Disgusted at the sight of human depravity? Guess what? Newtons third law. There's human goodness out there too. You think the world is in short of good people? Go plant a tree, go build a home for habitat for humanity, adopt a kid, make a ripple. One life matters, and you can change that much. Take solace in the fact that people like Elon Musk just proposed this super cool idea for this thing called the hyperloop that could connect the continents -that technology is catching up with the world and everyday we're finding new ways to innovate and make places like Africa better to live in. I was just reading this awesome idea that architects would start remodeling shipping crates into houses for third world countries. We're on the verge of mass producing 3D-printed organs. We're putting live people on Mars. We are on the cusp of one of the most innovative decades in existence. Progress is slow, yeah. But it isn't always going to be this way. The world is getting better and better, not all of it, but a lot of it. The population is bad, yes. Human greed is bad, yes. The world is shit sometimes, yes. But you know what? There's a lot of good in it too. I've gone through depression, as well. I get it. And sometimes it royally sucks to be a participating member of the human race when people just walk around like "whatever" when people are dying, and money's changing pockets in washington, and no one gives a shit about climate change, and you can't even motivate yourself to read a goddamn book (even though you used to love reading). It sucks. But I don't think life is meaningless. Not at all. Not even a little. In the words of John Green: "True love will triumph in the end -which may or may not be a lie- but if it's a lie it's the most beautiful one we have." Chin up. Spit spot, and all that. (=