Responsibility
I'd be willing to go as far as saying that virtually no one else could have lived my life better than I. That is not a complement to me. The narcissism. Virtually no one would have been able to avoid or correct the damage. I had completely failed to do so by the age of 13. A defenseless child undoing his damage? Unheard of. A statistical anomaly. Everyone else would have succumbed. A life sentence to a living death, however superior their potential was to mine. I dodged a huge bullet that would have destroyed anyone. It had destroyed me. But I took responsibility. I overcame. I worked very diligently on self improvement. And then smack bang into clinical depression. Worst time of my life. Ending things became an option. Many people don't survive such things. But I took responsibility. I took back control. I got over it on my own, no assistance. I took my life back. There were other smaller yet damaging things that happened. Each time I took responsibility. Learned from the expe...