When you get used to the thought of being endless, a life that spans a few decades feels like a cruel and senseless death sentence, the proof the universe really doesn’t care about you. 

It is the ultimate banishment from Eden, to live your fated lot as a frail, naked, scared and inescapably impermanent creature.

If he couldn’t find the ultimate meaning in all the centuries he’d spent wandering through the many splendored versions of reality, what could he possibly hope for in however long of a human life was now laid before him? 

It was his punishment, really, to wrap up his epic adventure with the fate of a fruit fly!