REFRACTED. We've all lived lives that have been influenced in ways we didn't even know were happening. Outside forces have altered our paths, stretched our luck, pivoted our course and even stopped us right in our tracks. When we reflect on how our lives have been challenged, changed and manipulated it can shift the way that we look at our present. Our capacity for emotion, physical well being, desire for hapiness and all other aspects of what makes us thrive is partially cultivated in ways that we may think to be beyond our control. When we break apart the barriers, we find ourselves always at the center, always a constant and always capable of remembering what brought us here  to begin with.