Chain

I wear the chain I forged in life….I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
― Jacob Marley, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Perspective

“Man, the creature, thinks so highly of himself, that however small a part of the created cosmos he knows he is, it still seems to him an injustice when he suffers.”

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14b