> "the pandemic and response has taken away a not insignificant chunk of the prime of my life." Bits of your life which don't go your way are still lived, and

> "the pandemic and response has taken away a not insignificant chunk of the prime of my life." Bits of your life which don't go your way are still lived, and still your life. You may as well argue that sleep takes your life away, and that illness does, and that employment does, and nickel and dime your way down to defining "your life" as just the bits you choose, and then further slice them all down into "the bits which went exactly the way I wanted". Newsflash, it's /all/ your life. > "Life is risk risk includes things not turning out how you hope, do you say that risks which don't pan out are "taking away my life"?