If you blame your current circumstances on the choices made by others, what power do you give yourself in your life?

Governments make laws without directly consulting you.  Even if you voted for the current government, it may make laws which you don’t like.  There is not much you can do to change that, although there may be if you are determined enough.  The point is that the laws of the land are circumstances not really of your making.  They are the environment in which you live, as the weather is; they are your circumstances.  There are a number of things you can do about those circumstances.  You can simply lump it and get on with things, with or without complaining.  You can shelter from it – from the politics, the law, the weather.  You can move to some place with a different (political or climatic) environment.  You can find ways of making use of the circumstances.

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