What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
J. G. Ballard | RE/Search #8/9, 1984