Life, the Universe and why stats can make you feel better

Life eh?? whats the point of it all? We get up every day, shower, dress (iron a t shirt) leave the house and either get in our cars (or other peoples) and travel to a place of work. Sit there for 7.5 hours (maybe have some lunch) then turn around and head home. We relax, watch tv and sleep, then we do it all again. Its kinda depressing to think that in this week where Scientists (you go guys) have discovered that the UNIVERSE is actually a billion years older than they thought it was (14.3 instead of 13.3) that we spend so much of our infitisamal time on the planet in such mundane pursuits!!! Average life span of a western man in the UK, what is it now? 86 maybe? 90 possibily, so i'm sitting here at 28 (soon to be 29) that's a third of my time used up already (at the high end as well!!!) a third!!! thats ridiculous!! i haven't DONE ANYTHING YET!!! and i've used a third of the time up!! This of course is a failing in our species as our young are so crap they can't do anything on their own for the first 18 years (some parents may disagree with this low figure!!) So technically if you remove the first 18 years from the figure of 90 that leaves us with 72, and then technically i've only been independent for 10 years so really i'm only 1 seventh of the way thru my life!!!! Damn thats a relief i was starting to get depressed about that!!!