Why? Is your adversity really, really bad?

It would be beyond rare if someone faced no adversity in life. But there are degrees of adversity. Compare the denial of luxury to the denial of necessity, the denial of any sort of health care to poorly performed health care, the death of a pet to the death of a family member, the loss of a job to the loss of ability to perform that job, an illness to a terminal illness.

The degrees of adversity are proof that life is not fair and it really all comes down to how we handle adversity. The approach, do we handle it on our own, do we have a support system, someone, family, religion, philosophy? Well,if you have read my blogs, you know my belief,

"you may beat me,but I am not beaten. I cannot be defeated or beaten by anything or anyone. I will never,ever give in or give up. Even in death I am not defeated". But I do not know the source of this thinking. Perhaps it is innate for I am the descendant of homesteaders and have roots of bravery in my heritage. In any case, I pass on my philosophy to my descendants. I shout it for all to hear, sadly some did not and will not or could not hear. Will you?