Surviving the Storm: A Rough Couple of Years

It’s winter break and I have had some time for reflection. Which brings me to this passage from Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore” that caught my attention (h/t to Dylan O’Sullivan for surfacing this): 

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

My god, what a rough couple of years. Lots of ups and downs. Personal, family, national and geopolitically. But here we stand. Shifting to the wind and water that bash us around. I don’t think we are out of the storm yet but remember the Charles Darwin quote: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”

This storm will end sometime and most of us will be better off having gone through it, as painful as it has been. And I think for most of us, while we are banged up physically and emotionally, we are definitely stronger, smarter and hopefully wiser.