"There were two words in particular that made him want to cover his ears with his hands [...].
Those two words were "the point".
As in, "what's the point?", "I don't see the point"; "there's just no point" (a phrase which omits the "the", but one that counts anyway, because the "the" wasn't the point of "the point", really) ...
You coundn't have a talk about life, and especially about the possibility of ending it, without bringing up the fucking point, and Will just couldn't see one. [....]
But you couldn't say that to someone who was so unhappy and lost that they wanted to empty a whole bottle of pills down themselves and go to sleep for as long as it took. Telling someone like Fiona that there was no point was more or less the same as killing her off [...]
Rachel: "You don't need a point."
"Don't I? That's not what it feels like." - Will
"No. See, Iwas thinking about you. About how you have to be fairly tough in your head to do what you do."
"What do I do?"
"Nothing. [....] Most of us think the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you und despair, and you don't seem a very desperate person. [...]
The point is, you keep going. You want to. So all the thing that make you want to are the point.I don't even know if you relalize it, but on the quiet you don't think life's too bad. You love things. Telly. Music. Food. [...] Little things like that, but there was always something [that keep you going]."

-About a boy, Nick Hornby, 30. Kapitel (Auszüge)
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