Do we make the moments in our lives or do the moments make us?

I think that we definitely make our own moments in life. There are certain moments or experiences that are handed to us, and it us up to us to make those into something else. You could easily take a happy moment where you're frolicking in a field of flowers and make it depressing by making a big deal about getting bitten by a bug. Also you could turn a sad moment like getting bitten by a bug and make it happy by naming it Jimmy and setting it on a small leaf where it can roam free. Moments don't define us, we define them.