Quote:Superman fell off a horse, and look what happened to him.
All things in life are just "events"
No matter how many insurance policies you take out, things will keep happening.
It is how we react when things happen that defines our lives.
Christopher Reeve may have experienced enormous personal growth from becoming a quadrapledgic IF he accepted it in the right mental frame.
To resist life is to suffer.
It is odd that the left are constantly trying to say that the right are resistant to change (there is a grain of truth in this), yet it is the left who are resistant to the "reality of life"
they dislike the economy, capitalists, the way things are.
They are always looking to change, not from a spirit of contribution but because they are in pain in the current reality.
Where ever they go, unfortunately, they always find THEMSELVES there.
accepting challenges and obstacles, in fact relishing hard times is the mark of mindfulness.
Adversity breaks down the ego and then you can rebuild it and rebuild it in a better way.
There is a very good book on this. i think it was called "super fragile" and talks of how chaos is an essential ingredient in producing advancement