Life is one of those things that just about everybody goes through, at one time or another.
Life is what you make it. Cliché, I know. However, clichés are clichés for a reason. They tell the way it USUALLY is. Or at least, often enough to take note of. However, I have proof enough for myself that life is driven by faith. Extrapolation: Everything is driven by faith. I mean, think about it. A man decides that his car is only going to work for about 3 years, and !kabam! in about 3 years, the thing dies. A woman is told from the time she is very young that breast cancer runs heavily in her family, yet her younger sister is not. The elder finds a lump every couple of years. The younger does not. The mental state of any one person can and will, inevitably and eventually, affect the world around that person. It's not just psychology. It's not just statistics. It's life. My experience has taught me that one must define one's world before the world defines him. This does not mean to go around, bullying and forcing issues. It's just having a firm mind set, a realistic, achieveable, and visualized goal, and a will to change.