There is a quote of Michel Houellebecq that I like very much. “Anything can happen in life,” he once said, “especially nothing.” And this may be true. But sometimes, even nothing can have wide-reaching effects.
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Made a Twitter account just to be able to post on your site Quintus. Really like the article which perfectly describes the fickleness of life itself. You can do all the right things but the world may still conspire against you; or do everything wrong and yet the world showers you with blessings.
It’s paradoxical, one could say unfair. But such is life. Such is Fortune. One of the key points I’ve taken from your writings is to simply accept it. As long as I act (or at least try to) in a virtuous manner – who cares what the rest think.
Yet I’ll be honest – sometimes I do have problems with accepting the fact that incompetent (borderline criminal) people are living in luxury while others in squalor.
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Thanks much for posting, Guriko. Much appreciated. (Did I tell you I lived in Japan for a couple years, way back in the ’90s?)
And yes, we all have trouble accepting the hands dealt to us by Fortune. But it does get better over time!
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You did tell me in an e-mail and subsequent podcast which helped a lot at that time. Thank you again. I consider those words then as a Royal Flush dealt to me by Fortune. Now I can’t allow myself to waste the gift!
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I’m glad about that, man. Keep moving forward.
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