Everything In Life Boils Down To...

[NobodyNothing]

Does that mean anything, though?
I mean, should such a realization change anything in me or you, going forward?
Or is it simply attaching a name to something inherently understood?

Sometimes it's significant to remember this one ineluctable fact.  It guides everything we do, whether we know it or not, or like it or not.

That is all.

What makes it significant?
I'm not much of a subscriber to Freudian psych, or pretty much any psych for that matter. To that end, I still question if it really guides anything we do. I've definitely seen arts that are pleasure driven, and I've met many people who seem to be guided primarily by the so-called pleasure principle. So if anything and everything reduces to the reality principle, does the pleasure principle still exist?

(It's the discussion board. I'll attempt to discuss.)

I'm old.  Sometimes you come back to the simplest of all principles.  Objective reality.  No escaping it.  But try and try again we do.  We're pretty remarkable in that way as a species, I must admit.