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It's all about attaching meaning to the meaningless via the unknown and unknowable. It doesn't always happen to be meaningless, but it is often meaningless with regard to what you had hoped it to mean.
Myth has probably existed for as long as humans have had language.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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