These events don’t define me but I have allowed them to

It’s as if I’m telling myself,
“These events are a broth that I must soak, marinate, and become stew in”

But that is by choice!

Events have and will occur, it does not mean I then carry them around like an albatross

I’m not cooking for myself because the stove burned me that one time years ago

People will do things to me and events will happen as well

Things will happen, I should not then walk towards sabotage

These events may mold me but shall never define me