It doesn't help them if you're miserable, either. They're dead. Nothing makes a difference to them anymore.
[Harsh, maybe, but that's how Adam sees the world. You can mourn dead people, but if they're gone - really gone, not lingering ghosts or spirits caught in the world somewhere - there's nothing you can do that will affect them. It isn't that Adam doesn't believe in an afterlife. He has been friends with ghosts, he knows something like a soul must be real. He just doesn't think the affairs of the living matter to those who are really, truly dead.]
But you can still help other people. Or you can still try, at least. You don't have to be a good person to do that. You just have to - do good actions, I guess.
[Maybe that would, eventually, make someone good. Adam doesn't know.]
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[Harsh, maybe, but that's how Adam sees the world. You can mourn dead people, but if they're gone - really gone, not lingering ghosts or spirits caught in the world somewhere - there's nothing you can do that will affect them. It isn't that Adam doesn't believe in an afterlife. He has been friends with ghosts, he knows something like a soul must be real. He just doesn't think the affairs of the living matter to those who are really, truly dead.]
But you can still help other people. Or you can still try, at least. You don't have to be a good person to do that. You just have to - do good actions, I guess.
[Maybe that would, eventually, make someone good. Adam doesn't know.]
If you give up on that, what's the point?