Life is what happens to you when you aren’t paying attention.
Usually these life events take the form of a surprise in one way or another. Even if it is something that you know will happen and are even expecting it can seem like it just bowls us over.
So a tornado touching down and turning your mobile home into so much kindling can take you by surprise, but then so can the death of Uncle Freddy who has been on death’s door for years and whose passing is entirely expected. These events can have a surprising emotional toll.
So how can we prepare for these events? How can we expect to be able to cope with disaster, death, divorce or other sort of bad deal?
The simple answer is: we can’t.
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