No one's life is easy. Even if you get what you think you deserve, afterward you'll come up with something else you want. People are never satisfied, and that only makes life harder.
Everyone wants to make a name for themselves, but how many actually succeed?
People today expect to profit from everything. They make money by any means necessary and scheme to get every advantage, yet when they get cheated, they curse others for being selfish and ungrateful.
The drifter who made a fortune wants to buy dignity with money. The wealthy craftsman puts on glasses. The farmer who struck it rich buys a whole truckload of books. Meanwhile, the intellectual with a diploma has nothing to his name, making do with simple food and clinging to the so-called integrity and pride of an intellectual as he grumbles. Those with both diplomas and money can't hold on to the partners who stood by them through hardship. Helpless people, helpless circumstances.
Zhuge Kongming died exhausted on the battlefield serving the useless A Dou. Cao Cao killed Yang Xiu for being too clever. When faced with such helplessness, all one can do is find solace in imagining what might have been.
People today have learned to adapt, and they've learned to be hypocritical, too.
