Destiny
Explanation
This comic satirizes the gap between romantic narrative expectations and mundane reality. A person approaches a wise old sage on a mountaintop and says they've been "chosen to save the world" and asks the sage to set them on their path.
The sage responds prosaically: the hero will spend 60 years making incremental improvements to bureaucratic processes in sanitation or logistics. When the hero protests -- "I was thinking more like a cool sword" -- the sage replies that the hero's contribution will be expertise in "chemical stabilization methods."
The punchline, "Real life is terrible," underscores the comic's theme: in reality, saving the world doesn't involve epic quests or magical weapons. It involves tedious, unglamorous work like improving water treatment or supply chains. The joke plays on the "chosen one" fantasy trope from fiction and contrasts it with the reality that the people who genuinely make the world better tend to do so through boring but essential institutional work.