In regards to what it took to get me where I am in life, I must say that each person I've known beyond a superficial level, I can tell something good if not great about them. It has taken some discipline to (not see people in their glowing light) but to just meet other people. My inaite shyness was the obstacle to overcome, along with my apathy and inability to trust strangers, as well as my interpersonal relationship with depression and understanding bi polar disorder.

However I always stood on own my on feet and I owned my personal defeats as each choice I made was carefully thought out and I examined each possible outcome for the situation.  I did so without malice and here is where I see individual choices that defines who we are, which can be influnced by genetics, environment and societal expectations.

If we were all as diligent and elegant as some of the greatest minds that resides on the planet, we would know peace. If we held our expectations of the golden rule when we meet with adults and authority, we shall find power. If we were to enjoy our lives like when we were young babies and children, we would find smiles and laughter.

While, I have made my share of mistakes I have painfully retraced my steps to find the error of my ways. This is in my opinion called conscious living. It is what separates the barbaric need to dominate and destroy creation and creativity. In some ways it is a form of captivity to try to trap someone else's innocence or niavity in attempt to possess it for themselves.  Human beings are a culmination of good and evil and to consider that we are not victims of deceit, tyranny or tragedy, then you less in tune with the news of today.  It is easier to believe that we are incapable of wrongdoing when we break laws everyday, whether universal or man made, we are faulty. Yet, our individual selves are in control if we make it our choosing.