"I wish I'd NEVER been born, Gandalf, I wish the [one] ring [of Sauron] had NEVER come to me, I wish NONE OF THIS had ever happened!" "NONE who live to see such days wish for that, Frodo, but THAT is not for you or any of us to determine. It is only for us to choose how to make the most of the time appointed to us."

Or as the late, great comedian Robin Williams might have expressed things: "Carpe Diem! [Seize the day]. Make the most of the time allotted you, for as the wisest man who ever lived, Israel's King Solomon, expressed it, at the conclusion of a long and eventually fraught reign,

"Give a serving to seven, even to eight, for you do not know what evil will be upon the earth."
(Ecclesiastes 11:1-2.)

Whereas the prophet Jeremiah, in gentle admonishment of weary and worn worshippers of the One True God - Jehovah [Yahweh] - put matters thusly:

"If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is (indeed) small."

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