What does the following quote mean to you? "You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going."
Obviously, no one gets to choose their parents. Whether you are living with your biological parents, step parents, foster parents or adoptive parents, you are born or brought into that situation. However, the family you have does not have to determine the life you lead. One of my favorite quotes is from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It states: "The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine own self be true."
We choose where we go in life. It may be more difficult for some people to get to where they want to go because of obstacles in their way, but if they want it badly enough and are willing to fight for it, they can do it. Your parents may not have graduated from college, but that doesn't mean you can't. Your family might not have a lot of money, but that doesn't mean you can't get scholarships, federal aid money, grants and loans to finance an education. It may not be easy, but if you want it badly enough, you can do it.
That being said, some people have so many obstacles to overcome that it's difficult to look past them. And, no, life isn't always fair. Bad things happen, opportunities are lost, and we all encounter disappointments of some kind. In those cases, when a dream may be slightly out of reach at a certain point, the above quote still applies. How? Because you control your attitude. You control how you look at things and how you deal with disappointments and obstacles. And, even if a dream doesn't happen right now, doesn't mean it won't years down the road.
** Now, for your assignment, make sure you copy and paste the prompt to the top of your post (NOT the title - put Writing Prompt #2 as your title). Your entry should be at LEAST 100 words (not counting the prompt). To help you get an idea of how much 100 words is, my entry (not counting the prompt and not counting this explanation) was 273 words.
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