Small Chances Keep Me Going
Dear [Mentat],
Now to answer your final question [...]: Well, you should go on living because of the possibility (however small that is) that you would find an appropriate mate. As we’ve mentioned, the quest itself, even if never realized fully, offers much challenge, enjoyment, and enlightenment along the way. Commander Data would probably never become fully human. Yet he pursued the goal without fail through the entire seven years of ST:TNG [Star Trek, The Next Generation]. His zeal for “living” illustrates the point well. As long as there’s the slimmest hope of success, then it’s worth living long enough to see it happen. I believe that though my chances are quite small [at winning the love quest], I still have some chance of finding my dream girl. So, I keep on living. 
