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The lesson, so simple yet so difficult, is that life can be savored even though it contains hardship, disappointment, loss, and even brutality. The choice to see its beauty is available to us at every moment.
He waited some more while she described the situation. After a pause, he counseled his youngest to let it go. You’ll kill yourself getting worked up, he told her. “I don’t have time for people like that,” he said.
We determine nothing but our own actions and reactions.
The best way to protect her, he figured, was to refuse to turn his experiences, good or bad, into baggage. Live, learn, and move on.
Resourcefulness is a close cousin of resilience.
In other words, without fear, there is no courage. One who senses no danger feels no apprehension. One who feels no apprehension has no desire to run away. Lack of fear, in Rachman’s terminology, is not courage. It is simply ignorance of danger.
There is value in making decisions, right or wrong, and moving on. Perfectionism, by contrast, can become an enemy of life itself, freezing us in place while the world goes on without us.
