Look for reasons to worry and you’ll find an endless list — people fall sick, people die, and all of it could happen to you. That’s true, and Innocent doesn’t argue with it. What he refuses is the conclusion that it should make you hate life or live in fear.

He runs it the other way: the negatives are what give you reason to love the positives. Knowing life isn’t guaranteed is exactly what makes being alive and well something to celebrate — and to live to the fullest.

That’s the whole weight behind a very short sentence: “Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.” Mortality isn’t denied. It’s just not allowed to cancel today.