What Do I Have to Do with It? And Why Me?, 3

And then add this crucial facet: just as your commitment in keeping the tap open proves your intention to make it, that drain wide open proves the existence of someone else’s opposite intention that you do NOT make it.
An opposite intention is not a different intention: it opposes your intention head−on; you want to eat an orange, someone wants you to eat a banana: that is a different intention; someone else wants you to starve to death: that is an opposite intention.
The point is that no intention is safe as long as there is an opposite intention. Every effort you put in your intention to make it in the presence of the opposite intention that you do not is just wasted, because it is unstable: slippage will follow advance, cave in will undermine stability, there will be ups and downs, there will be uneasiness, blunders, troubles, conducts not up to what is expected or needed, losses, and most of them unexpectedly, unwittingly, inadvertently, by surprise, and most probably right when and where you expect them the least and they harm you more. And you won’t attain your targets, or you will lose them once attained.
In the presence of an opposite intention you are liable of being stabbed in the back at any time. Actually, just like most of us, you are being stabbed in the back unbeknown to you right now. And any effort you put into your intention is wasted until the opposite intention is dealt with conclusively.
In sophisticated economic mumbo jumbo, no amount of commitment to the taps will ever do, unless something resolving gets done about the drain. And about the intention behind it. That’s why I’m calling your attention to them, first.