我们讲故事是为了活着,我们活着是为了讲故事。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.
If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.