Resilience In Hard Times



You're going to get knocked down. A long business relationship will come to a sudden end. A contract won't be renewed. A lover will call it a day.



People will suddenly be weird with you. They'll keep you out of lovely things and you won't know why. You'll read about yourself on social media and every worst fear will be confirmed.



Quite a lot of things go wrong over a lifetime and you'll want to die and throw it all in and quit this painful world.



When you look at a child, this is what's coming to them. That's what makes it moving to look at a baby sleeping. You're looking at innocence through the lens of painful experience. Oh my, they're going to suffer and there's simply nothing you can do to help them.



Apart from one thing, teach them that the suffering is normal. It isn't a sign that life has gone wrong. It's an ordinary part of everyone's biography. The only way, is to learn to fight! The temptation would be to withdraw under a rock. To pull up the drawbridge; to go into a shell. But the challenges are like a fire, a bed of coals you have to walk across.



The fight has to be expected. The difficulties are a sign that things are on track. That you're being rejected, that there are haters, isn't evidence that your life is a ruin. It's proof that you've found something worth living for.



词汇表

get knocked down [nɒkt] 被击倒，被撞倒

contract [ˈkɒntrækt] 合同，契约

renew [rɪˈnjuː] （执照、合同等）续期，延长期限，更新，重新开始

call it a day 到此为止，就此结束，收工

confirm [kənˈfɜːm] 证实，证明，确认

quit [kwɪt] 离开，放弃，停止

innocence [ˈɪnəsns] 天真，纯真；无辜

lens [lenz] 视角；透镜，镜头

biography [baɪˈɒɡrəfi] 传记，人生经历

temptation [tempˈteɪʃn] 诱惑，引诱，诱惑人的东西

withdraw under a rock [wɪðˈdrɔː] 躲起来，与世隔绝；躲在岩石下

pull up the drawbridge [ˈdrɔːbrɪdʒ] 与外界隔绝；拉起吊桥

go into a shell [ʃel] 退缩，变得孤僻；缩进保护壳里

a bed of coals [kəʊlz] 一片炭火，炭火堆

on track [træk] 步入正轨，按计划进行

reject [rɪˈdʒekt] 拒绝，排斥，冷落

hater [ˈheɪtə(r)] （尤指网络）攻击他人的人，怀恨者

ruin [ˈruːɪn] 一团糟；废墟，毁灭，崩溃

proof [pruːf] 证据，证明



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