Yeah, you have what you have and what you do with it before your time runs out. That particular passage is a dark passage and Joe is going through a particularly dark time. I also think there may be another answer, though, and that comes through the voice of Jenna, when she is talking to her neighor, Bill. They are having a conversation about love and loss and Bill is very upset and wants to know what Jenna thinks, and Jenna replies that love will break your heart each and every time. But then she also suggests that love is also the only thing that will repair the heart once it has in fact been broken.
Life is hard and loving others makes it more easy to endure.
It's a pretty simple idea. Well, if you live in a world where anything is possible, anything at all, anything is possible. That's what Ray discovers. Well, the only way you can deal with the world is by learning to deal first with yourself. So I think the people are constantly in a process of re-evaluating their own lives and where they stand approximately with the other people they know and love in order to save themselves.