The text that follows is from a book. I think it is very interesting and should be helpful for everyone so please take a few minutes to read. And in times a trouble remember what this is talking about...you make your own choices...you do and no one else...you control your happiness.
I don't believe in destiny. We are not born to become one thing or another, left to follow helplessly a course that was charted for us by some unseen hand, a mysterious alignment of starts that pulls us in a certain direction, bestowing happiness on some and misfortune on others. The only fate we cannot escape is our mortality. Even a long life is a brief experience, hard as that is to believe we are young. God has given us that life, shown us how to use it, but left it to us to dispose of as we choose. Our character will determine how well or how poorly we choose.
It is your character, and your character alone that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And YOU choose it. NO one else can give it to you or deny it to you. No rival can steal it from you. And no friend can give it to you. Others can encourage you to make the right choices or discourage you. But you choose.
Your happiness is at stake in every difficult decision you must make about what kind of person you will be: honest or deceitful; responsible or unreliable; brave or cowardly; kind or cruel. Your talents have little to do with it. Your looks don't matter at all. You don't need to be good at sports. You don't need to popular with other kids. You need not be smarter than others. Those things are nice and useful and pleasing. But they won't by themselves make you happy. Looks change. People for no good reason sometimes treat us unfairly, and friends come and go as our lives take us to different schools, different jobs, and faraway places. Our strength and speed and agility grow for a few years, and then, for most of our lives, we get weaker, slower and clumsier. However smart we are, there are always people who know more than us.
The things that you are most afraid of are usually the things that are most worthwhile.
"This above all: to thine ownself be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou cannot then be false to any man."--Thats a little Hamlet for you all
anyways hope everyone is safe and has an amazing break | 
