I am The Master of My Fate, The Captain of My Soul

One Bad Day doesn’t Mean a Bad Life

Lukas Purba W
1 min readOct 22, 2024
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As long as I stand above the ground, I’m happy — Anonymous

All of us have had a bad days, some people have it rough, some just experience for a while and start to smile through it.

Here is the harsh fact, as long as you live, you will always have problem, so instead of being stressed with it, learn how to live with it.

William Ernest Henley have a tuberculosis when he was 12, his left leg was amputated and his joints hurts almost for his entire life.

But instead of wailing about his condition, he hop around the room, jumping, laughing loudly and always in high spirit to pretend he was beyond the reach of pain. Eventually becoming the one of the best writer in England.

Let me tell you this :

How you act and how you react is the one who dictate your identity. Your problems are not your identity. You can choose to dwell in sorrow or you can choose to rise above your problems.

You are beyond what your problems are, you are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.

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