If you live your life feeling as though you're a victim of circumstance, you will always be stuck in a rut of helplessness. Awful things happen in life, things you could have never prepared yourself for, and its unfair but that's just the name of the game. You won't always have control over what happens to you, in fact, most of the time you will be life's chess piece; but what you do have control over is the way you react to grief and adversity and bumps in the road. You have the freedom to choose your own mindset in any given set of circumstances. You can choose to play the hell out of the hand you've been dealt. I promise that you can survive a lot more than you think you can so don't give up, you just may surprise yourself. And besides, if you're not moving forward, where are you going?