Enter Crying, Exit Laughing

You enter the world screaming. Not politely, not with grace, just raw lungs and panic. That’s the first scene in everybody’s play. The crying’s built in. What isn’t guaranteed is the laugh at the end.

Some people never get there. They leave this world the same way they arrived: terrified, bitter, grasping at scraps. But if you can survive the traumas, the betrayals, the bureaucracies, the cancers, and still find yourself chuckling in the face of it all, then you’ve beaten the house.

The real prize of life isn’t wealth or legacy. It’s walking off the stage with a grin, whispering the punchline nobody else caught.