10% What Happens “Life is 10% what happens and 90% how you react.” Said by Charles R.S Windoll. The meaning of this quote in basic terms is, what is going on in life is going to happen; therefore, life is how you make it and about the choices made. It explains how every situation little or small is affected significantly by the response. Life is made up of a million different actions and responses every day, and the responses are the factor that decides and defines a person’s character and traits. This quote is very applicable to my life, and I can see situations very early on where it has affected my personality and my character. What does this quote mean to me? “Life is ten percent what happens..” Simply means Stuff is going to happen,
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The first and, most likely, the largest situation and the reaction came tumbling at me at the age of five, with my parents’ divorce. My choice that I made subconsciously was to push everyone away mainly, my parents. In time that mended, but I was never as enthusiastic and smiley as before. Next, there was when both my parents remarried two other individuals, and I made a choice about how I was going to handle it. It affected me, and I chose to push myself further away from people and hide my feelings. Subconsciously I applied this quote to my life at a young age and grew further away from many people. Later I changed the condescending, defiant, and depressed attitude as I actively applied this quote to make my life happier and immensely better.
Now it is prominent that this quote can encompass bad and good in the decisions made in my everyday life to change the way I perceive it. I can choose to make a bad situation good by reacting correctly and always keeping a good attitude. I believe this quote used properly can make any life more enjoyable on a whim. Therefore, if life puts me on the side of the road the I’ll be there
The first and, most likely, the largest situation and the reaction came tumbling at me at the age of five, with my parents’ divorce. My choice that I made subconsciously was to push everyone away mainly, my parents. In time that mended, but I was never as enthusiastic and smiley as before. Next, there was when both my parents remarried two other individuals, and I made a choice about how I was going to handle it. It affected me, and I chose to push myself further away from people and hide my feelings. Subconsciously I applied this quote to my life at a young age and grew further away from many people. Later I changed the condescending, defiant, and depressed attitude as I actively applied this quote to make my life happier and immensely better.
Now it is prominent that this quote can encompass bad and good in the decisions made in my everyday life to change the way I perceive it. I can choose to make a bad situation good by reacting correctly and always keeping a good attitude. I believe this quote used properly can make any life more enjoyable on a whim. Therefore, if life puts me on the side of the road the I’ll be there