There are three ways to live life. 1) Open to exploring anything and everything. 2) Closed and rigid. 3) The middle road, expanding frontiers, but connecting it all back to one's core identity. Solomon leads us from tragedy to jealousy, in an effort to teach us the secret of the middle road. A short life lived with integrity is more valuable than a long life filled with anger and envy. Choose quality over quantity, but remember that the road to true quality is via quantity -- consistently sticking with good habits until you can do them with purity and the best intentions.