The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.
荒野是一个美丽而危险的地方。要生存,你必须尊重两者。
Humans are predictably irrational in systematic ways.
我不知道是妈妈对,还是丹中尉对,我不知道,是否我们每个人都有,注定的命运,还是我们的生命中只有偶然,像在风中飘。但我想:也许两者都有吧,也许两者都在同时发生着。