Russian Roulette

As I had said before, it's safe to say that Candide’s character is much like a person with a mental disability, to fully grasp the world. In other words, straight up stupid. But reading the last line of Candide, something made me think twice about Candide's perspective on the world. "That's true enough, but we must go and work the garden."(144) Finally, Candide changes, he leaves his naive diapers and steps into some boxers. The whole book was based on this personality of some kid, experiencing horrific things around the world, but somehow justifying such acts as though he were blind. Candide finally realizes that the world is a bet, in other words, a Russian roulette. You can choose to take life in two different perspectives: 1. Making your own luck or, 2. Letting your life fly by in front of you. It might be easier to comprehend what I'm saying if I put it into a real life situation: Imagine your car's breaks have been failing  to respond accurately, the past couple of times you taken your baby on a spin. Tomorrow’s meeting is located in a pretty downhill environment. 1. You can put your very life in the hands of fate or 2. You can go and get them checked. You can rely on luck to get you through the day or you can actually go and build your own luck. Voltaire finally expresses his opinion on an ideal lifestyle, by clearly expressing that a life of "cultivating" and taking action will be bountiful in the long run. If you don’t get the brakes checked in your life, chances are that you'll be trying to justify the series of "misfortunate" events caused by your so-called luck.

*Remember the only thing that can really happen, if you choose to pull the trigger is...let's let fate decide.