"I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become."

There were a thousand things I didn’t choose.

They came suddenly, without warning,

and changed my life forever.

Good and bad things I never sought,

but that found me, reshaping the course of my days.

They were paths I lost,

a life I never expected to live.

But if I couldn’t choose what came my way,

I chose how to face it.

I chose dreams to color my days,

hope to sustain my soul,

and courage to defy the inevitable.

Because living is just that:

not controlling what arrives,

but deciding how to remain standing.

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