Kim’s Reviews > Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities > Status Update

Each time I fell into a chasm--my son's death or a tumor in my breast or an unwelcome woman--I had to accept the planet had taken a few turns & I could not turn it back. My life was & would always be different, & it would be less than I hoped it would be. Each time, there was a new life, a new story....the longer I clung to the hope that my old life might come back, the more I set myself up for unending discontent.

Each time I fell into a chasm--my son's death or a tumor in my breast or an unwelcome woman--I had to accept the planet had taken a few turns & I could not turn it back. My life was & would always be different, & it would be less than I hoped it would be. Each time, there was a new life, a new story....the longer I clung to the hope that my old life might come back, the more I set myself up for unending discontent.