Living in Finland, where about the most exciting thing to do is to watch icicles melt, it is much easier to improve one's skills on classical arts and sciences than it would be in a more temperate climate. Also, instead of being top class in a very narrow field, I have found it more satisfying to be pretty good in many topics - since there is no guarantee for a second round, I prefer diversity to using the whole life in perfecting just one skill, however good. But really, there is nothing exceptional in anything that I do. Let me also disagree with your political message. Life has whatever meaning everybody assigns to it.
Meaning is in the eye of the beholder.
Avant le 15 avril 1997. I'm currently training French, I should brush up my German, and Japanese is the next in the queue. Apparently, reading the Short Strips has caused him a core dump. No I'm not a pedifile. Did you whatch the Simpsons last night.