People are born athletes participating in a race, not physical but intellectual.
Human life is just like a marathon race.
Physical marathon race has a finishing line whereas intellectual marathon race will never end. The ultimate desire for human is to exercise the greatest possible control over the other human and things around him. With the control on human comes indirectly some control on things, such as politicians using their power to gain materialistic benefits. Likewise, with the control over things comes indirectly some control over human, such as rich people hiring other people to work for and serve them. Politicians also have direct control over things, such as government-owned enterprises and assets.