React or respond?

To respond is to choose. To react is to have something else choose for you.

I have never met anyone who claims they want to feel frustrated, agitated, angry, doubtful, mean, or rude. This is how I know all these experiences arise when we are in a reaction to life, rather than in response to it.

You were given the gift by your creator to choose how you respond to life. This is the superpower that makes you a human being. No matter what happens or what has happened, you have the choice now to take a few deep breaths and respond in a way that makes you proud and feel the way you want to feel about yourself.