22. Life Owes You NOTHING!
Let's get it out of the way, it's an obvious one but people still miss it. You may feel, as life has been fairly good to you up to this point, that in some way you deserve for life to keep being good to you. You don't break the law, much. You don't beat up grannies. You very rarely kill people. Unfortunately it all adds up to nothing. There is no taking part medal, there is no economic model to ensure trickle down prosperity. There isn't even anyone who cares (outside of your dear old mum, who will always care). The horrible truth of the matter is, you are on your own. Life is hard, full of people who want to take what you have and will use any excuse to get it. Taxes, mechanics for your first car, mum wants her investment back, etc. The point is, everyone will take from you if you let them. The way to avoid this is to get any job, fast. Now you're in the rat race. Squirm, little rat! Squirm! You are at the bottom of the heap and the only way to prosperity is to be exceedingly lucky, or to work exceedingly hard and to outmaneuver the competition. You better have been paying attention to Game Of Thrones, the only difference between that and reality is we don't chop poor peoples heads off anymore, we just take their entire world worth.