Thanks for sharing this, @samboomer.
The world in itself is meaningless, whatever definition we give to situations are reflections of ourselves.
Define a challenging situation in a positive way, and an inner energy will swell within you to meet with it, but define it in a negative way, and the enervating power of your own fear will bring you low.

Situations don't change in themselves. They only take up better or worse shape based on how we colourize them, what changes is the individual