A stroke of luck...?

"In the 1920, when Ernest Hemingway was working hard to perfect his craft, he lost a suitcase containing all his manuscripts.  The devastated Hemingway couldn't conceive of redoing his work. He could think only of the months he'd devoted to his arduous writing - and for nothing, he was now convinced.

But when he lamented his loss to poet Ezra Pound, Pound called it a stroke of luck. Pound assured Hemingway that when he rewrote the stories, he would forget the weak parts and only the best material would reappear. Instead of framing the event in dissapointment, Pound cast it in the light of opportunity. Hemmingway did rewrite the stories, and the rest, as they say, is history."

-Dennis Waitley, Ezine Issue 142

How many losses have we had along our lives?. How many disappointments?.  We all have our share....How have we casted them, in what light? Are we still lingering and holding on to them in sadness?. Or can we make something different of them?. I've made my choice..... and time will tell.

Sensei Myriam

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