The concept that we
as individuals somehow control our own fate is a powerful one in our misguided
and rather unenlightened society. However what reality says is that our
individual choices and, thus our own fate are constrained by the circumstances that
we are faced with. Those born in the inner city certainly do not have the
advantages that the one who has been born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth
give that person. The thought that ‘you can do whatever you set your mind to’
is blatantly false and people who sell that kind of snake oil are nothing more
than hucksters and at the very least ignorant of the truth. All the power of
positive thinking falls woefully short against the power of karma and
circumstance. This does not make one negative but a realist.
