Dealing with Adversity
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3 min readMar 1, 2020
Today is a blustery day. I’m going down the hill. I pass a man, coming up it. We nearly collide. His face is set, his hood is up. I’m going into the wind and the sleet bites my face. He’s going away from it and the force of it powers him up the hill. He has an advantage on me, even though he’s going upwards.
It reminds me of the Irish blessing: May the wind be always at your back…Not, I note, may there be no wind. Hardly…
