The question 'how do you view life' is very different to 'how do you view your life'. I am thinking that you meant more the latter.

The title of your thread has some truth in it. We have some ability to change ourselves and therefore life is what we make it. But there are considerable limitations. We have some choice of how we react to what happens to us and the circumstances we find ourselves in. We have some ability to shape our futures and change ourselves. But I would strongly suggest that this has its limits and that many of the people here have suffered abuse and pain NOT of our making and that on top of that we have impairments from genetics and biology that are affecting us in such a way that we have gathered at this board. In short we are suffering a great deal and are struggling to make anything out of our lives. This is not from lack of will or lack of trying. This is only my opinion. I also believe we are very limited in our ability to change others and extremely limited in our abiltiy to change society itself.

That leaves your other question what can i do to improve my life. I need to get out of depression. And then start to address the mess I have made. Op i do not know if you have had severe, crippling, suicidal depression. But not only is it incredibly difficult to endure it can, and I find usually does, leave your life in tatters. what i find happening is that i effectively pick up a shovel and start digging a hole. And there I am standing in that hole. I keep digging. The light fades in my eyes and as i go deeper the difficulty of me ever climbing out becomes more apparent. Occasionally someone shines a lantern down my hole and what I see is hope. Hope that i can climb out one day and do something with my life.

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