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PRISONERS OF LIFE
Tuesday May 16, 2017
I read something (writer and subject not the issue), of gritty resistance, worn-weary acceptance of ‘the life they were given’. An urban Canadian, no third-world refugee. Nothing we can do? Then why live?
Is the life we lead our responsibility?
Before swiftly reacting, “our life is 100% our own responsibility”, consider not everyone sees that, not everyone has your experience, has your will, has your strength …
Yes, they might be prisoners of circumstances. But we are our own jailers, have our own key – can let ourselves out, to be free, when we decide it is important enough, when we decide we care enough about our own self-determination that we are prepared to upset someone else’s status-quo, shatter someone else’s expectations, succumb to heavy weight of our own perceptions, that we have no other choices …
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