We all ‘hit the skids’ at some point. That’s an inevitable fact. It should be expected and when it happens, it must be accepted.
However, what is truly shocking, is not that challenges come along and destabilise our lives, but that more than often, real signs of our impending catastrophe were actually all around us.
The signs were there! Sometimes many of them. In big bold colours. Some of them were even FLASHING. Yet we simply did not see or recognise them. Those signs did not – perhaps could not – prevent the catastrophe that awaited us.
Like many, when I have experienced real reversal or hardship in my life, I have revisited situations in my mind, only to realise – most shockingly – that the signs of impending disaster were indeed all around me. They were prominently displayed and they all screamed their messages of warning. The signs were doing their job, if only I had been able to recognise them.
There is no bitterness towards anything that has made me who I am – that’s the acceptance part – but it’s never wasted effort to become a better reader of the signs.
I suspect that is a true lifetimes work.
