The void.

When life gets tough you can always say:

"Oh sweet void. Absorb me into your nothingness!"

It will happen one day. You'll die and all there will be is void. Forever. An infinite, blank, blackness stretching to infinity.

You will be wiped out. Your thoughts, memories, aches and pains, all obliterated into a vast emptiness.

I'm told the void is kind of like the way things were before you were born. What was it like for you thousands of years ago? It wasn't like anything.

Likewise, thousands, millions, billions of years from now it won't be like anything.

I'm told you shouldn't fear the void because fearing it would be like fearing the darkness between eye blinks. When the void happens, it's simultaneously instantaneous and infinite. The void immediately stretches an instant of blackness into infinity.

I'm told the void is like going to bed late at night when you're really tired. That moment just as you drift off to sleep. Only you never wake up.