She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.
Interpretation
The speaker acknowledges that one person actively shapes their life while he passively experiences it.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick reflects on the contrast between two approaches to life: active participation versus passive observation. The realization that someone else 'makes life over' suggests that they have agency and control over their circumstances, while the speaker recognizes his own inaction, leading to a life that simply unfolds rather than being crafted.
In practice
During a motivational speech about taking charge of one's life, this quote highlights the importance of personal agency.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
No, you never get any fun_x000D_ _x000D_ Out of the things you haven't done.
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.
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