The way I see it, is that even though we'll return to the same moment from when we came, we have this time now to live for. It may not mean anything later, but after having been here for as long as I have, I couldn't imagine not living, not caring just to protect myself from hurt.

[He pauses for a moment.]

We'll hurt anyway, no matter how hard we try to protect ourselves. The trick is how we deal with it.