"such a victim of circumstance"

I have never really understood what people are trying to say when they tweet things like "Why, hello there, December! Please be good to me!" or -even more outrageous- "December, hope you'll be less of a bitch than November!"

Sounds to me as though they're all big on the imponderables and perhaps pop psychology-Destiny/Fate/Kismet/the stars (whatever tickles your fancy). And that they have no role whatsoever in deciding how their lives will turn out to be. Frankly, it's utter bullshit to leave everything into God's hands. I mean, if each and every one of us is placed on this planet for a purpose, supposedly destined to be someone recognizable one day, why bother being up and about every morning and pretending we'd rather not be snuggled up in bed all day, catching up on How I Met Your Mother since our future is predetermined by the Universe? The ideal job for us will simply fall into our laps when the time is right anyway, right? Wrong. Heck, if that's how simplistic life is, the notion of chasing your dreams and fulfilling your potential would not even exist, much less heard of.

You are not defenseless against the reality you were thrown into and are now living in. Without a doubt, the happenstance factor does intervene in life, but not to that great an extent as to how we perceive and cope with adversity that comes our way- problems we have to solve, challenges we have to overcome, perplexities we have to understand and conflicts we have to resolve. Mind over matter. Be the change you want to see. Take life into your own hands. For you are the master of your own destiny.