Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.