Most times i think and reminisce of how my life has been so far and how i turned out to be. I have always been a believer of the saying that what you experience in life can make or mar what you turn out to be.
My people would say the distance between life and death is just a split of a second. we live today tomorrow we die then what is the meaning of life. in our hustle and bustle to make life meaningful for ourselves we oftentimes forget to actually live the life but we just survive which doesn't make us actually enjoy this life. Many atimes we realize a little too late that we haven't been actually living but just surviving.
Your circumstance doesn't determine what you become in life. The sole determinant of what you become is you yourself. What you make out with your life is dependent on how you utilize your experiences and circumstances weather good or bad.
I lost my dad at a tender age, and the already rough road got extremely pretty rough from
there onwards. I just started junior school and we were left without a breadwinner. it wasn't easy but we strived and thrived till i finish my higher education and today i look back at those situation and circumstances and realize it could have turn out bad or even worse but i was determined not to turn out bad. i decided to put in extra efforts in everything i do.
One thing we have to realize as humans is that life always happens but that is minute to what your end result becomes. like 
Life may be painful and hurtful sometimes but then, Shit Happens. We can't control the bad things that comes to us sometimes but we can only prepare ourselves to be strong in such times and go through it till life give us a good time to enjoy.
The above quote further buttress the fact that you cannot control what life gives to you but you can control what you with that thing that life throws at you. like the popular saying goes
if life throws you lemons, make lemonade out of it
Do not make excuses for yourself or weigh yourself down with negative and demotivating thoughts but always stay positive in your thoughts. making excuses would get you nowhere instead it would make you make the worst choices.
Whatever life throws at you, Create an happy ending out of it. this doesn't mean that everything would go our individual way but we can turn the tides and create an happy ending from a sad circumstance.
Life is short, life is hard, life is unpredictable, life often times sucks but life is good, life is beautiful, life is awesome and all you have to do is just follow the tides, enjoy the ride, make happy memories, focus on the bright side and keep hope alive.
We see life from different perspectives and what we experience and the outcome we have is based on how we see the world and through which lens we see life.
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