WE’RE BORN ALONE, WE HARVEST ALONE, WE DIE ALONE

I was set on not thinking much of this cheerily morbid little video based on description alone, but some mix of the Byrne and the hammered-home message about the thankless plight and futility in the games we play (and, by proxy, the life we live) won me over pretty quickly.

As Resigned’s ‘Sir Cucumber’ puts it:

I’ve never believed in much, but in my youth I held a private article of faith that in the extra mode of Balloon Fight if I just kept going a little bit longer, if I just held on, something good would happen. It had to. Or else what was the point?

A small part of me still wants to believe this, but I know better now.

Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey [Resigned Gamer, via Free Pixel]