This didn’t cross my radar until today’s post on Open Culture. David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech in 2005. If you’re curious it’s about 3 years before he took his own life. The speech is beautiful and will consume you within the first minute:

…there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. 

In How Not to Kill Yourself, Clancy Martin talks about ‘signs’ of people in distress, and it’s hard to miss them here.