There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.
It makes you sit up and ponder, doesn’t it? It makes you question.
But more than simple, or thought-provoking, it’s powerful.
It hands control to you, the individual.
Do you laugh in the face of silliness, or cry? Do you find the steel in your spine, or do you surrender? Do you accept or defy? Do you choose, or allow others to choose for you?
It’s a saying that goes to the heart of a contemporary conundrum, a state of mind: victimhood.
On the ethereal streets...
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