What you do with your circumstances is your choice, your life
In the course of life on earth one encounters circumstances which may become obstacles or opportunities depending on how one reacts in, and to the circumstances. It is up to you to make your circumstance an obstacle against your progress or make it a bridge that would lead to the mountains of potential opportunities. Take for example, a young girl was raped when she was 13 years old by her sister's husband. She told her sister about the rape but she did not believe her. This young girl lived with her sister and was repeatedly raped by her brother- in-law until she turned 18 years. She carried the fear, intimidation and shame throughout her high school courses. She did not tell anyone about it because she did not think that anyone would believe her; if her older sister whom she trusted could not believe her, who else would, she rationalized. During this period, she busied herself researching on rape victims and how they survived. She also tried to see answer, to the question, why m