The thing I learned most in 2016 — well, not learned per se; let’s say absorbed — is that you have to live with your decisions. Sure, random stuff can happen, sometimes things far, far outside of your control can have an effect on you as an individual. But whatever the case, you have to roll with it, take it as it comes, learn how to deal and move on as best you can. I’m not exactly splitting the atom here: this is a part of life.
But other times you make a conscious choice to be one way or the other, to take this step and not that one, to be this person and not someone else.