“There are occasions out here that try our souls. But the great thing about it is you can laugh at ‘em about four hours after they’ve happened. And that’s the secret to everything.
Tragedies very often become comedies and they better become comedies real fast or else you’re in a lot of trouble.”
~ Reverend Jimmy Buffett, 1978
We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can control how we react. Life throws us bad bosses, traffic jams, exes who still have your favorite t-shirt, and a whole lot of other lemons we’d rather not live.
The “secret to everything,” as Jimmy puts it, is this ability to find peace in the darkness… to not take ourselves, our pain, or our struggles, too seriously.
Resilience isn’t about being unshakable. It’s about staggering out of life’s bar fight with a scar, a grin, and a story to tell. While we can’t always control the chaos and the pain, we can always choose to live through it and do our best to find a little something to love along the way.
And about that scar? Sometimes that scar is the place for a new story to grow.
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