Ted Louis, who retired from a career in computing, had a passion to try and reform Children's Protective Services. By writing an extensive series of books, we see some of the abuses that particular authority has perpetrated against the ones they are sworn to protect.
If terrible things happen to you and around you, do not quit, do not stop. Just take a brief moment to collect all the good stuff that is left, then move forward. Good things will happen and bad things will end eventually. Life goes on, with or without you.