You can make it if you try

I was reading a book on Sydney Crosby to my son and there was a line where Crosby said "you can make it if you try". It is funny those successful people say that. They don't know how many more people tried just as hard if not harder but failed. They would look down on poor people and say they were lazy. But there are only so many success in this world. Someone has to lose. That's the thing. People cannot relate to things that didn't happen to them. The lyrics in Sinead O'Conner's song goes like this:

You say "oh I'm not afraid - it can't happen to me
I've lived my life as a good man
Oh, no you're out of your mind
It won't happen to me
'Cos I've carried my weight
And I've been a strong man"

I used to think I am in control. If I have been a good man and a strong man, nothing bad would happen to me. But in fact it is mostly luck that nothing terrible has happened. 神马都是浮云。