reputation for ourselves and to achieve success. What if the pleasure of food is a daily joy that we ungratefully overlook? What if our work was never intended to make us successful but simply to make us faithful and generous? What if it is death that shows us that this is how we are meant to live? We saw in chapter 1 that at the heart of our human condition is an unwillingness to accept things as they really are. We long for lives of permanence in a world of constant change, and we strive to achieve it.