We can not lay down and cry over the bad situations that we face in life, because we would not be able to move beyond them. There are times that we tend to limit ourselves worrying over the things that we can not control, instead finding out what we can do to change the situation.
"It really doesn't matter how we got in a ditch, if we are truly trying to get out of it. We can cry about someone pushing us in the ditch, or we can get out of it and laugh later."
We can't blame anyone if we are in a bad position when we are not doing anything to get out of it. Someone or something else might have caused the problem, but we become the problem when we refuse to face it.
Be a survivor not a victim,
SG
"We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Nothing and no one can make us a victim. We do it to ourselves when we allow external circumstances to hold power over us.
Although we have no control over what happens to us, we ALWAYS have a choice in how we respond. We hold our power when we accept complete responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions.
"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."
-- Elmer G. Letterman
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
-- Steven Biko
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Posted By: Emmanuel Brown
Tuesday, August 26th 2008 at 11:16PM
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