Circumstances - Are you a victim?

“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”

Benjamin Disraeli

        Do you think that Disraeli is correct in his observation? Is it circumstances that make us, or do we make circumstances. George Bernard Shaw said that people are always blaming their circumstances for what and who they are. He did, however, not believe in circumstances dictating our lives. The people who get on in this world, according to him, are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, then they create them.

Karl Marx, in his Theses on Feuerbach, also touched on the matter relating to circumstances dictating our lives or us dictating our circumstances. He noted that there is one thing that the materialist doctrine fails to take into consideration when it claims that men are products of their circumstances and their upbringing. It fails to realize that it is people that change circumstances.

Yes, of course, you can go on and blame everything else but yourself for the circumstances you find yourself in. That is an easy way to shift the blame and an easy way to lull yourself to sleep. The point is that if you find yourself in a non-conducive stage of life, then you should not blame your circumstances for that. You should learn to rise above that, step out of it and create your own circumstances, for you are ultimately the moulder of your own destiny. Take that to heart if you dare! Start today to change your circumstances if you are not happy with it. Use also today to stop blaming your circumstances...

How very easy to blame your circumstances,

using it as a justifiable ground for a lack of progress.

In the process, you fail to utilize a plethora of chances,

resulting in you having not more but much less…

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