Tell you something good.... I will let Victor Frankl do so, he says it better than I ever could:
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
What is to give light must endure burning.
I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
(fyi: I have spent 33yrs in active war zones, 15 in 'ceasefire' status, only 2 in non-combative situations. I have been displaced several times.)