Through the eyes of a beholder

Oscar Wilde said: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Sounds catchy doesn’t it? But truth has that irresistible quality of being much less poetic. Oscar Wilde did live and an extreme life it was! But…the price for that life had to be paid not only by him but his family and friends as well. He was a 100 % hedonist and the bill for his pleasures went to the people he loved and cared for the most. Wouldn’t you call that irresponsible and even cruel? I would. To exist may not be in the least exciting and appealing but it is moral and you just can not have it both ways. There is always someone who has to do the dirty job and clean the puke off the floor when the party’s over.
Apparently I am of the existing type since I have a time to waste.