Don’t for one instance think that everyone else has a better life than you or had it easier than you – pretty well everyone has their own battles that they are going through or that they have gone through.

I really get frustrated by the comment “but I had a bad childhood” – what are you comparing it to?  A child displaced with no home or personal belongings living in a dusty refugee camp overseas or perhaps the three year old little girl in your local hospital fighting cancer who won’t live to see her fourth birthday?  The vision of a ‘perfect’ childhood doesn’t exist, except on TV shows like the Brady Bunch but they’re not real, we have all gone through tough times at some point and what you might think is tough isn’t what someone else would consider tough but we each have to deal with those tough times the best way that we can.

What we need to do is accept that we can’t change the past, it is what it is however good or bad, we can’t dwell on those things that hurt us, but work through them and realise that they have helped shape the person that we are today, if you don’t like the person that you are, then it’s up to you to change the way you think or do things, no-one else can do it for you.  You can’t go back and make a new beginning, accept that, but what you CAN do is decide to make a change today so that you have a different ending.

It’s up to you.