What To Do When Life Hits You In The Face
3 practical lessons from my favorite books.
Life is beautiful, but sometimes it hits you in the face. With a chair. Swung by the incredible hulk. You can’t avoid it, but what you do when it happens makes all the difference.
On a Monday a few weeks ago, I met with my girlfriend to rent an apartment together and book flights for our summer holiday. Instead, she told me she needs some time apart to sort out her life, wasn’t herself in our relationship anyway, and hated parts of my character and way of living. What a lovely way to start the week.
When you break up, get fired from your dream job, or someone you love dies, it’s like the rug gets pulled from under your feet. One moment, you soar sky-high. The next, you crash into the ground like an old building during an earthquake, shattering your world without warning.
There’s nothing to prepare you for the emotional sucker punch, but here’s how you can deal with the aftermath and take a few points off the suckiness scale.
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and…
