Life is crazy, OK? The ups. The downs! Even the middles... are crazy. And everything is exaggerated under the microscope of performance pressure. So it's healthy to try to keep an even keel when possible, yes? Honestly? We don't know.

Is it false and unhelpful to force "balance" in the face of the vicissitudes of life? For those of us whose ultimate Saturday night involves peace, quiet, and an early bedtime, adrenaline and nerves are hard to embrace. But what if life just Isn't about feeling normal?

Things get very real very quickly in this episode, and the whole discussion is capped off by what could possibly be the most depressing Benjamin Button tagline ever imagined. Remember: we know nothing.

-=- Show notes -=-

Video - Our (unused!) Acceptance Speech for the 2016 Podcast Awards #pc2016
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Foverthought%2Fvideos%2F1740566242853698%2F

Website - Daniel Taylor, Countertenor - 'Four Thousand Winter' CD
http://www.danieltaylor.ca/four-thousand-winter/

Book - 'The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi', by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich
https://books.google.ca/books?id=MvW1CPh84MwC

Website - Dan Benjamin, host of Back to Work
http://benjamin.org/

Article - 'Ontario funeral business dissolves the dead, drains liquid into sewer system', by
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.3643765/ontario-funeral-business-dissolves-the-dead-drains-liquid-into-sewer-system-1.3643771

Image - 'My Childhood Punishments'
http://www.overthoughtpodcast.com/images/My_Childhood_Punishments.png

Book - 'Tale of Genji'
http://www.taleofgenji.org/summary.html

YouTube - 'Gattaca' - Never saved anything for the swim back
https://youtu.be/GM-znjDGubE?t=3m14s