Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.