KEEP ON SWIMMING ON
How Do You Fight Your Monsters When They Have All Gone Home?
Calmer waters are tougher than waves
An old friend of mine wrote a book called Good in a Crisis. I think about the title of that book a lot. It’s no small thing, being good in a crisis. Many of us excel in calm waters but when the waves come in, we see what we’re made of.
On the flip side, some people are made for calm waters and other people are made for stormy ones. That’s how life’s work is divided up.
Some make the fires, some put out fires. Some catch fish in a boat with a rod, some catch fish in a storm with a spear.
I used to say I was good in a crisis, but I’m not so sure. Are you actually good in a crisis when recovery takes decades? Or when you forget to recover at all? Or when you’re an empty shell when the crisis subsides?
Or, are you merely used to being good in a crisis, but when the water calms you throw your hands up?
What is this madness? you ask the calm waves. Where are my enemies? Where are my windmills?
