Your Daily Nullification

I awoke in a fever, my daughter's hot, tiny body across my chest, with the realization that life is a lot like a choose your own adventure book, except that no matter what you choose, the outcome is always going to be the death card. Everyone you know and love will someday meet a grisly fate. We don't know which one of us will be the next one to go and which of us will get to continue with the adventure a little while longer. We don't know which wave will be the one to sweep us under, only that the one that will finally take us out to sea is out there waiting.