If someone ordered a man to swim before he had ever learned to swim, everybody would say this was impossible. Likewise, if someone ordered a man to run before he had ever learned to run, it would be taken as irrational as well. However, we are almost always burdened by ridiculous orders such as these from the time we are born. Did we learn how to live when we were in our mother’s womb? As soon as we leave our mother’s body, we step into a life which resembles a giant sports stadium. Of course it is unreasonable to expect a man who doesn’t know how to swim to swim well. Further, a man who did not know how to run would be likely to follow other runners. In light of this, nobody would be able to leave the stadium of life without having wounds all over the whole of his body.

People might say, “Look to your predecessors; they will be good role models. However, you could never learn to swim or become a good runner immediately even if you watched hundreds of swimmers or thousands of runners. Rather, every swimmer swallows water, without exception and all runners get covered with the mud of the stadium. Even world famous athletes hide their bitter faces behind their proud smiles.