If you are determined to do whatever you’ve set your mind to, you shouldn’t pay any attention to what others have to say about it. Only when they start hitting you, you should reconsider.
If we were born into this World by accident, how come I couldn’t be born rich, so I don’t have to suffer throughout my life? Hence I don’t play any lottery games, considering that Fortune is not on my side, by design. I’m getting old and superstitious.
If all cells in our body replace themselves every five years or so, can we then conclude that we are new persons, in the same intervals? The trouble is that all cell replacements don’t happen simultaneously.