I no longer believe that situations define who we are. Rather, I believe that situations define what we need and what we desire to do. Situations do not define one’s character. They strip away the lies we tell ourselves and expose who we really are.

From the mother who is willing to watch other children die in order to save her own, to the profiteer who is willing to kill all that is good in order to become rich; they are one-in-the-same. Neither is based in love or understanding, and neither is virtuous.

We can find ourselves in situations what disallow us to do what we know is right but then we must work to change the situation or remove ourselves from it. whatever we do we must never give up the knowledge of right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and evil.

We must call a spade a spade. If we give in to stupidity, laziness, lies, fantasy, ease, and comfort; if we give in to situations that are based upon such ideas then we become lost and inconsolable.