It's true, that being our own person is difficult
when it feels as if everyone around us, owns us already.
A person can go for days or weeks, years even, thinking they are
acting of their own accord. But then one thing out
of the ordinary can hurl us off the path we believe ourselves
so firmly traveling.

Maybe the issue isn't the event that threw us, rather our reaction to
it. Or perhaps it was our original thought that we 'knew' where
we were headed. Who knows? From my vantage point it would seem that life
is less about right and wrong, and more about living. Achieving is Being.
Be with yourself in every moment and the ones you feel taken away from you,
could be less of an issue. Jason

As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what
they say about you, you will enter into the exciting process
of becoming, as you should be, the author of your own life,
the creator of your own possibilities. - Mandy Aftel

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn
we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we
can go on to be whole. - Muriel Rukeyser

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is
you. Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you. - Joy Harjo