What is Life for?

Take the great American writer Ernest Hemingway, for example. Born in 1899, he was the epitome of the twentieth-century man. At age 25, he sipped champagne in Paris, and later had well-publicized game hunts in Africa and hunted grizzly bears in America’s northwest. At the age of sixty-one, after having it all – wine, women, song, a distinguished literary career, Sunday afternoon bullfights in Spain – Hemingway chose to end his life, leaving a note saying, “Life is one [expletive] thing after another”