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You're fat, you're pushing forty, and faced with the realization that the boy who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut is no more. A man has taken his place, and rather than sitting in the cockpit of a capsule, awaiting the thrust of booster rockets that will wrestle him from the grasp of Earth's gravity, he's instead wrestling in the tight grip of an armchair that once fit comfortably, many beers ago. However poorly you fared in the game of life, remember, everyone—even truly worthy people who managed to achieve something significant in life—will have to face this change at some point.

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rdfs:comment	You're fat, you're pushing forty, and faced with the realization that the boy who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut is no more. A man has taken his place, and rather than sitting in the cockpit of a capsule, awaiting the thrust of booster rockets that will wrestle him from the grasp of Earth's gravity, he's instead wrestling in the tight grip of an armchair that once fit comfortably, many beers ago. However poorly you fared in the game of life, remember, everyone—even truly worthy people who managed to achieve something significant in life—will have to face this change at some point.
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abstract	You're fat, you're pushing forty, and faced with the realization that the boy who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut is no more. A man has taken his place, and rather than sitting in the cockpit of a capsule, awaiting the thrust of booster rockets that will wrestle him from the grasp of Earth's gravity, he's instead wrestling in the tight grip of an armchair that once fit comfortably, many beers ago. The youthful dream of breaking through the stratosphere is also gone, replaced with more immediately pressing concerns like, “Will my breaking wind be sufficiently contained by the fabric of this armchair, or will I set off the smoke alarms again?” It's nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone. Yes, farting too, but also the understanding that you've achieved as much in life as you're going to, and are now on the cusp of a great journey along the Plateau of Irrelevance, before that long, slow descent down the Mortal Coil of Utter Obscurity, until reaching your eventual destination six feet below ground where you can find real use in a task ideally suited to your overstuffed cheese-doodle-nurtured carcass—as nutritious food for a variety of underground creatures, and rich fertilizer for the grass that your loved ones would have been weeping on... had you not been a complete nincompoop and alienated them with your self-absorbed hermit-like isolationist tendencies. Of course, all this assumes that some other human being actually deemed you worthy of their hand in marriage. Or, failing that, in the very least selected you as the lucky recipient of three-and-a-half minutes of semi-unbridled carnal enjoyment behind the supermarket dumpster—a bit of coital celebration after a successful diving expedition to liberate day-old doughnuts from their steely prison. However poorly you fared in the game of life, remember, everyone—even truly worthy people who managed to achieve something significant in life—will have to face this change at some point.

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