Amy Purdy asks “If your life was a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?” To start off, every person is born into different situations in different parts of the world. Some people are able to choose our environment and community others have limited mobility. People have different rights and social abilities around the world, but we all want to achieve happiness. Despite there being different levels of control over ones situation, the one thing we are in control of is how each person reacts to the situation at hand. If I were to be writing my life as a book, I would like to have the ability at all times to find the positive of every situation, even if the positives cannot be found until the situation is in the past. It is important to live in the moment, not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. …show more content…
Yet, if I were a millionaire trust fund child and I had no experience of others struggles I could potentially still not find the positives in situations that others would be ecstatic to have because it is all based on perspective. Yet, the power of living in the moment and positivity are 100% in our control. No one can take away our thoughts or memories. Thus, when I am on my death bed, friends and family are dead, and all I have are memories, I would like those memories to be positive and joyful. My end goal as the writer of my life is to die happy little regrets of the things I didn’t