Redmayne

Nice to see the slogan for the recent 'Invictus Games', held in Florida for paraplegic athletes where the words, 'I AM' taken from their title both of which based on William Ernest Henley's poem ,' Invictus'...

The last lines of which are,

' I am Master of My Fate,

I am Captain of My Soul,'

Worthy goals for us all to both seek and achieve in recovery and you can't buy or fake that...

Boleo

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

(Aldous Huxley)

silentrun

I love that poem.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Ok..I may have complained some but I did not bow to my circumstances. I made it out.