There is always the point that I think you
were trying to make, which is that obviously,
we don't live life that way - doing what we
most want. We hock our souls, for some imagined
future. Hell, I'd probably still be with my wife, if
I had lived as though life was going to end.
Likewise, I think I could try and be happy, if
I knew I only had a short while left. But, concerns
about reality prevent this.