The Rules

There's no point in chasing experience; experience is always upon you, like gravity and as a result of time. Life is not a game or an adventure, but an endurance trial with a predictable end. And there are rules, but they're not imposed by God, by your local government, by your mother, or by nature.

They are, in fact, imposed by my mother.

The rules are composed mostly of immutable facts, but the final rule is both breakable and the hardest one not to break.

1. You cannot stop.
2. You cannot go back.
3. You will always go forward.
4. You cannot expect happiness, joy, pleasure, or anything at all positive.
5. Life is not its own reward.
6. You may not quit.


The only penalty to breaking them is losing. And when you've lost, you no longer care that you've lost because you're dead.