158. Your path is your business — no one else’s.

Only your own two feet can walk your path.

We live in an age where bloodshed is not as prevalent as it was. Our lives aren’t threatened and we have more freedom to choose what we want to do and how we want to live our lives.

There is however another contagion plaguing our minds: learned helplessness. It makes us think that we are trapped, condemned to an eternity of existence not of our choosing.

Victor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of “Man’s Search for Meaning”, is one of the greatest exponents of someone who lived without the trappings of learned helplessness.

Even in the most despondent situation, he did not buckle. He just kept surviving and eventually made it out alive.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

This quote from Frankl should serve as the reminder to survive through any adversity. Your path is always yours to walk.

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