The station in life, the position he holds in society, determine the character of the experiences of the individual. Station in life is determined by birth and immediate surroundings. Birth is determined by previous acts. Only a few surpass the limits of their birth. The overwhelming majority lives, moves, and toils within the status inherited by their predecessors, rising a little now here or falling down there.
Human life is a book of experiences.
In its pages are written the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, the ups and downs, all events and incidents, which a man, as a sentient being, encounters during the career of his earthly existence. An individual does not generally obtain without effort the position he covets in the group of which he is a member. He wants wealth, knowledge, power and pleasures. He is driven by his greed, his ambition, his curiosity and his sexual appetite. But he finds himself in an environment always indifferent, sometimes hostile.