Let me confess a personal flaw: I’m much better friends with dead people than the living. Dead people don’t flip-flop on what they believe. I could easily imagine myself grabbing coffee with Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, Charles Spurgeon, George Wishart, John and Charles Wesley, Immanuel Kant, and even Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche once said, “If you think someone ruined your life, you’re right. It’s you.” Translation? Own your story. Yes, people can hurt you. Circumstances can hit hard. But at the end of the day, you’re the one holding the pen that writes your next chapter.
In plain language: quit playing the victim. You’re strumming that card like I play the guitar—which is to say, badly. (And I’ve never taken lessons.)
Victimhood is a trap. It locks you in the past, while ownership launches you into the future. Every setback contains a seed of growth—if you choose to plant it. The headline is this: many things you think were done to you may actually have been done for you.
You have the power. Yes, I’ll say it louder for the folks in the back—YOU HAVE THE POWER. You can choose to turn adversity into an advantage. You can decide that today, right now, you will stop letting circumstances define you and start letting your choices shape you.
The victim waits for rescue.
The victor picks up the pen.
Which one are you?
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