Let’s say, for example, that you were in a bank as it was being robbed and suffered a gunshot wound to the arm.
Are you unlucky because you were the only one who was shot? Or were you lucky to be shot in the arm and not in the head?
When life is easy, it’s like going downhill on a bike. But real growth happens when you go up and it’s hard.
Men are born soft and supple; dead , they are stiff, low and hard. Plants are born tender and plaint; dead , they are brittle and dry.
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
