There is a story that supposedly happened long ago in a village.  Everyone went for advice to a wise old man.  It did not matter what kind of problem a person had anyone in the village would go to him and ask him how to solve their problem
In that same village was a young man.  He grew to dislike the old wise sage.  So, he determined to make the old man look foolish.
So he thought and thought to devise the perfect way to make sure that he could not lose.  The young man decided he would catch a bird and put it behind his back and he would ask the wise man whether the bird was alive or dead.  If the old man said alive, he would crush it, if he said dead he would let it go free.
So, the young man waited for the right opportunity when the whole village would be assembled.   So he walked up to the Wise man.  With the live bird behind his back and he ask Him the question.  All the people had their eyes fixed on the wise man…

The wise man thought for a moment and said…it is what you make it.

The moral of the story is…Life is what you make it.