Whatever we do in our life we expect some sorts of results. And we always expect ourselves to be successful in life. We are afraid of being failure. Rather, we are afraid of humiliation surrounding the failure. Hence, in order to ward off the failure we are prepared to travel an extra mile to "snatch" the success (eluding).
In that process, we always go or work against the nature. In the end, we really don't relish the accomplishment of the "target".
It is always better to withdraw from the scene and just be a mute spectator so that one would not get badly bruised by the turn of events.