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A reader recently asked me if I had any hints on how to maintain a positive outlook on life. I started to write my response and soon realized that by simply asking the question he'd done me a favor. And so, here is my response.I think the great struggle of life is to smile in the face of defeat or disappointment and then turning to face the inner darkness. That metaphor sounds nice, but sometimes it doesn't capture it. It's an ambitious persons selling out. A rich persons turned corrupt. An honest person turned a thief. The religious person spiritually penniless. It's all those choices stacked upon themselves blowing precariously in the wind of life. And there we stand beside it wondering what else we could have constructed?
Sometimes we get a second chance when those plans come tumbling down.
And so those well laid plans that are scattered all around us are only a disaster if we choose to view them that way. Because in that wreckage lies a masterpiece if we're just willing to pick up those pieces and build it.
