My apologies for pressuring you to recall memories as painful as those.

[He is genuinely sorry about that, especially after hearing the...insanity that he just described. Who is this Santa person and why was he so obsessed with milk and cookies and reindeer? Why are malls involved?]

To make constant attempts on your life, however, seems counterproductive to the very goal they themselves have set out for us to achieve.

[To simply "live". He knows, that living isn't just being alive, receiving the bounty of the earth with no cares, and sometimes true living can only come in the face of death, ironically enough, but that just sounds...odd.]