This quote, as I see it, is spot-on correct; you are whatever you make yourself to be. If you make yourself depressing, suicidal, unsympathetic, unwanted? That’s exactly what you’re going to become. If you make yourself happy, content, curious, loving, fascinated, hungry for information, hungry to see and experience? Again, that’s exactly what you’ll become, and chances are you’ll be proud of who you are in that case.
Thing is, the events that occur in your life don't make you who you are, but they do contribute to molding different paths for you to choose; if you experience a traumatizing event, if you really want to get over it, if you truly believe that you can move on, then you’ll move on no matter what it was that occurred. Sometimes it’s harder then other times, but it’s still generally the same if you try hard enough. You just have to believe, as cliché as that sounds.
One thing you’ve got to make sure of is to protect yourself from influences that could change you in a way that’s not exactly what you want; it may sound picky to some, but you have a right to become exactly who you want no matter your circumstance, and you have the ability to do so as well. You want to become rich? If you try and work hard enough, you’ll become rich. If you drop something before you get what you want, then of course you aren’t going to get it. No one ever got anything done by sitting around and praying for it to happen.
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The world is meaningless,
there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.
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