We found a this brilliant documentary about Bill Withers on the BBC iPlayer last night and I thought I'd share a quote, which I transcribed from the end of the programme. It was so simply put, I'd want you to read it:
We’re accidents at birth, you know.
We don’t get to choose what we look like, we don’t get to choose how gifted we’re going to be, how tall, how strong, we don’t get to choose anything about what we are going to be.
One day somebody says you are.
At some point or another we have a choice, if we are sane enough by that point, as to how much we are going to apply ourselves, and a lot of that is influenced by the people who nurture us.
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