Fate is arbitrary and beyond our control

Fate is arbitrary and beyond our control. No one ever gets everything she wants. These are hardly revelations, and one would have to live under an incredible umbrella of luck and privilege to stay away from them for long, but they are certainly insights worth exploring from inside the particularity of a life — how the delusions of exceptionality and infinite possibility get punctured.

The rules don’t apply

Ariel Levy

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