Accepting the absurd, as Albert Camus understood it, is for me the only way to exist fully and, paradoxically, to love life. To evade it would be to betray the world as it is.

Becoming who we want to be is a constant struggle against a lie: the belief that we must improve the image we have of ourselves, when what we should do first is simply be ourselves. The problem is that we only discover who we are through the adversities that shake our certainties.

Increasingly, when scientific truths are inconvenient, researchers are accused of being driven by ideology. Conversely, when those truths appeal to us, they fuel new ideologies that the world embraces without fully understanding their consequences.