"No-one will improve your lot in life if you do not yourself." - Bertolt Brecht
"Submission to what people call their "lot" is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another." - Elizabeth von Arnim
Our lot in life.
How do we get them? How do we choose them?
How do we improve them?
Or are they simply a combination of both - choice and circumstance?
Some of the fundamentals of our lots we cannot choose: our parents, our siblings, where and how we grew up, where we attended school, our physical size.
But as we get older, we can choose the fundamentals of our lot: what we believe, what we do, who we associate with, whom we marry, what we put our energy into.
Then at what point do the choices become fixed, our "lots" become prison bars which we seemingly cannot escape from?
Because the reality of the quotes listed above is that in fact we have a great deal to do with our lots in life - and that we have the power the choose and change them, if only we will.
What's your "lot" in life? How did you get there? And if you don't like it, what will you do to change it?
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