“Until you experience hardships like abuse and bullying, failures and disappointments, your mind will remain soft and exposed.  Life experience, especially negative experiences, help callous the mind.  But it’s up to you where that callous lines up.  If you choose to see yourself as a victim of circumstance into adulthood, that callous will become resentment that protects you from the unfamiliar.  It will make you too cautious and untrusting, and possibly too angry at the world.  It will make you fearful of change and hard to reach, but not hard of mind.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me