I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence. - Lawrence M. Schoen

Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest.

Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. Everything you’ve done needed doing and was set in motion long ago. Let go of your self-pity. Your feelings in these events matter no more than a leaf’s desire to steer the wind!

I gave destiny a push to make it happen. You study history, so stop your pathetic whining. You know better than most that destiny happens to us, it is never something we call forth.