THAT'S what predestination comes down to in these postmeritocratic times; it's a matter of going through the motions of equal access at the same time you're frantically trying to game the system.
"I feel like I've got the shots, it's just matter of going through the right thought processes.
And every day, no matter what I'm going through, when I look at the dog all the problems go away".
But it's more than that now; it's a matter of us going through the motions".
There was no way to know who or what was in the others, or for that matter what was going through the minds of those who turned up to cheer.
As she zips up her boots with grim, bored efficiency, Sonya radiates the compelling weariness of someone who has come to see life as a matter of just going through the motions, of surviving from day to day.
"Part of the reason I picked accounting is that no matter what the economy is going through, you're always going to need an accountant," said Melanie R. Cobb, a student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., who spent last summer as an intern at Deloitte & Touche and just accepted a job with its Parsippany, N.J., office.
Years ago I heard a story from Steven Vollaro, a Tucson-based seminar leader, that illustrates this point: Legend tells us of an argument between Plato and Aristotle about how matter goes through cycles of growth, stability, and decay.
If the meeting matters enough, invest in going through the pre-work.
No matter what we're going through, the opposite is happening somewhere else at the same time.
