Life is a kind of game that you don't really win or really lose. But that's not the point, it's how you play that matters. We will all succumb to our own mortality.
All life ends in death.
Grief is always present, but men tend to impersonalize it. It's just out there somewhere. There are different means to cope with the pain of this grief. But the man remains a boy to the extent he has not learned to deal with his grief. If he does not trust himself a man may never become trustworthy.