If a person's condition were a car, then a good mindset would be its steering wheel, accelerator, and brakes, playing a crucial role in controlling how it runs. The pace and direction are all in its hands. The body is like the car's performance: the engine, tires, bodywork, and so on. It is just the outer shell, but a car can't run on flat tires, and it can't move if its body is shattered. Vital energy is like the gasoline or electricity in the car, giving it a continuous source of power. Virtue is more like the road the car travels on. Those who follow the Way have many helpers, while those who stray from it have few. Some cars travel on highways, while others drive along sheer cliffs. It's really just like a person's life: some people combine virtue and talent, and the farther they go, the faster they move; others quibble over every little thing and benefit themselves at others' expense, until their path grows narrower and narrower. Every part of life's car has to work properly for it to run well. Imagine yourself as a car, and it becomes easier to understand: a basic compact car simply can't do the work of a truck. Force it to, and it will end up wrecked. That's why so many people eventually suffer physical or mental breakdowns: fundamentally, they've taken on things beyond their capacity. Their desires are great, but they have failed to recognize the limits of their abilities. So you have to keep upgrading your car if you want to do more and fulfill your potential more fully. Accept what you cannot change, and change what you can. Instead of complaining every day that you weren't born into a noble family or that you never won the lottery, you'd be better off focusing on what matters. You can still make this car run well. For example, what is fate? It's the things that are basically determined from the moment you're born...
