You’re walking down the street and find a $100 dollar bill on the sidewalk. Do you ask yourself “What did I do to deserve this?” What about when you receive a good diagnosis from your doctor?
I didn’t think so.
Why, then, do you do so when your car gets a flat en route to an important meeting or you wake up with sore throat?
Is misfortune to befall only the unjust? Are good people to go from success to success? Why must so many decent people walk miles for clean drinking water? Why is Donald Trump so successful?
The ability to rise above life’s vagaries – it’s thrills, disappointments, satisfactions and savage unfairnesses – affect every single one of us on a daily basis. A certain degree of calm is required to be effective, not to mention to remain sane. And calm isn’t possible if you don’t appreciate that truth we constantly remind our children: that life isn’t fair. If it was you’d be subsisting on tree bark like North Koreans or have a life expectancy of 46, as in Sierra Leone.
If it was, you wouldn’t have it so good.
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You sound biblical here, Dave: the Wisdom Books, Job, Tobit…Or were you munching on fortune cookies? (Just kidding, my friend) 🙂 Important questions, well-asked, as ever…Keep ’em coming, you’ll have a book soon…Catch me up sometime, okay?