还有按照“有效果”的方式做事，往往最后更本没有效果，老是想着怎么让自己的生活好一点，往往会让自己的生活变糟。
I've learned that doing "what works" doesn't really work for me. I've learned that constantly trying to improve your life, can often make it worse.
2007年他入伍，朋友说他尝试给自己生活一点方向，好帮自己支付学费。
He enlisted in the Army in 2007, to try to give his life some direction and to help to pay for college, friends said.
他必须完全离开这个大陆，远远离开，去欧洲或者美国，据谣传那里生活能好一点。
He wanted to leave the entire continent far behind, for Europe or America, where life was rumored to be better.
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