The door of my apartment is my chosen time machine. If the door is pried open, which means my apartment might be robbed, I would be extremely cautious in terms of locking the door for quite a while. I am likely to lock and bolt the door, and check it twice before I leave. But gradually, the security is perceived reliable again and the possibility of another robbery is little in my subconscious, so I wouldn’t check any more although I’d still like to lock and bolt the door. As the perception persists, I only lock the door afterwards. Finally, I totally loss my cautiousness again, inevitably followed by the second robbery.
Similar to the habit of locking the door, people always draw lessons from unpleasant experiences, such as failure and frustration. At the very beginning, they tend to take the lessons seriously, and always put them into practice. As time goes by, however, the importance gradually escapes the victims while the old life pattern comes back. Consequently, the second failure is bound to happen, making the first one meaningless in general. The whole process is like a circle (accounting for my choice of background music), in which the majority wastes quite a little time and energy. It is undoubtedly human nature, but individuals have to pay attention to it in order to fulfill the value of the first failure.
