Life is full amazing things, but life is also full of awful things, not saying this to be negative I am saying this to be real. You see no matter how high the mountain tops of your life are, there will be valleys, you will make great memories and you will have bad memories, and as much as yes your childhood does shape you, ultimately the one who shapes you most, is God. Some reading this, may not believe in God or even think he cares, but there is a God and he does care. He is in every big thing and every little thing of your life. He does not look at your failures when others do, God always looks at the HEART of man (and woman). Character matters, humility matters, YOU MATTER! That does mean you have to work hard to be humble or have better character, God alone can do that for you, if you ask. Seek first the kingdom of God and these things will be added.
One thing I am realizing in my life lately is that nobody can and nobody will ever fill only what God alone can. It does not matter how others see you, but it does matter how God sees you. Not everyone in this life is going to like you and not everyone wants whats best for you, but if you choose to love yourself right now, as you are, as you are created to be, your life will begin to change. I am finding more and more that the less I try the more I get, meaning it is not in my striving or in my own desires that, I will succeed, because then that can turn into greed (not good)! But it is in the crushing, the yielding, the suffering and the heartache where God comes in
and removes pain and turns it into something good, something beautiful.
You see I have been in trials as we all have. I do not believe that one person on this earth can say they have never known what pain feels like and if there is, GOOD FOR THEM. That is rare. Dont you notice a lot of successful people come from nothing. When you face the rough stuff, the good stuff isnt just good its GOLD. When you taste pain, happiness becomes something so precious, so beautiful, that you protect it. You do not allow peeople to steal it from you. You decide that I deserve peace and happiness and see life for what it really is, a precious gift. That is what life is, it is a gift, it is valuable and it is short. Dont lose hope and faith because it will get you through ANYTHING and nobody can ever take that away from you!