Lottery Results. We can only guess. But it's safe to say life could only be lived to the full by the instinctive or unconscious denial of death, otherwise nothing would ever be achieved.
Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anti-climaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
A need to affirm one's existence leads many people to enter the lottery.
The principle is much the same, the presentation is different, and in admiring the latter one loses all sight of the former.