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/^t/People plan. The ability to arrange future according to our needs is said to be one of the factors which distinguishes us from animals. Voyagers plan their holidays, the young couples - their future homes, while the contents of menu may be of some importance to a cook. However, very often happens that the future cannot be made in our way: the place of destination of the voyager proves to be not interesting, the couple gets divorced, and the cook is fired from the work. Then a question arises: what has gone wrong? It is definitely not what we expected. The answer might be that the differences between expectations and reality are caused by our insufficient imagination.