After 25, your life outcomes are your responsibility, not circumstance. Every choice builds your character, which shapes your reputation, opportunities, and relationships. Others judge you by how you decide and act.
Once you're over the age of 25, it's not other people, it's not circumstances. You always have a choice. Sometimes the choice is very difficult. There are 2 horrific choices or 2 difficult positions, you know, between a rock and a hard place. But that's what being an adult is, and it's you who has to make that choice, and it's you who has to live with that decision. Some people have very difficult jobs like doctors or police where it's life and death in a decision that they make. You can be there at 26 and you have to decide in that moment, is this person going to die are they going to live? What can I do? How do I affect the situation? Luckily, most of us don't actually live in those situations, but you have to kind of think of it that way, I believe, because these choices are building who you are as a person. And who you are as a person is going to affect your reputation, it's going to affect the opportunities that you have, it's going to affect your personal relationships, because that is now the impression you give people, the way you treat people, the decisions that you make, the way people trust your judgment. That comes down to character.
