Somebody says something mean to you. You choose to react with anger. Your reaction is optional.
You stammer. You choose to react with self-contempt. Your reaction is optional.
In both situations you react. Both times you create more anger and self-contempt inside you. Yet both times your reaction was optional.
If the option is there, then why not choose the option in which your mind remains balanced?
Its cool,LIFE can be changed.