ATTITUDE
ATTITUDE We are all born into circumstances that are not of our choosing. The family into which we are born, the economic and social status that comes with it, the beliefs and practices of the society around us, the opportunities available to us—and sometimes even the circumstances associated with the sex of the child—begin shaping our lives long before we are capable of shaping them ourselves. Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. What another person may have to spend an entire lifetime struggling to achieve may come to someone else simply by virtue of being born into a privileged family. That is the inequality of birth. Perhaps that is what we call destiny. No comment on that. But birth may decide the starting point; it need not decide the destination. What ultimately makes the difference is the attitude with which a person faces the circumstances around him, and the effort that follows that attitude. The hurdles created by circumstances may restrict a person, but they ma...