You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.