Life is what you make it. Very little of what happens to us is not due to our own choices. My mantra is simple, and anyone can do it. Be ambitious, make a plan, and execute the plan. Repeat. And repeat again. Yeah, 90% of the world doesn't doesn't do that. Why? That's on them. Stop the pessimism and reaction. Act for yourself. Be responsible for what you put in your own pie hole. That goes for just about everything else. Why must I reconcile all the suffering that goes on? I reconcile my own life. I give 20% of my increase to charity. I used to volunteer time, and will again. Reconcile? my life is the only one I can.