Google's quote today:

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

Often I've thought about why I ended up in grad school rather than in my little home town married before I was 20, working at a diner. I certainly had the dysfunctional family to lead me there...I was certainly poor enough....but in the end the only answer I've ever found was that I decided not to. I chose to have something better. I think it was in grade 4. Sometimes I wonder if I am still capable of making that kind of decision and sticking with it...lately it seems that commitment is something I'm incapable of making....

But at any rate, I'm lucky I had that strength then and I hope that I can find it in me again...to make the right decisions for my life: to fight for what I truly want and to risk everything for things that are worth trying for and most of all, to see past the road I'm on to the place I want to get to and know when those are different things.