So here’s an every day example. Someone breaks your heart. What are you going to do? Wallow? Maybe. Then what are you going to do in a week, in a month or in a year? Still wallow? Maybe. What about five years?

Well some people will still be lickin’ their wounds but if you’re Hank Williams, you’ll write a song! You’ll write, “Your Cheatin’ Heart”! And people will sing it for the next fifty years. And if you can learn to do this… if you can learn to convert your negative experience into something usable, and valuable to yourself and others, you’re home free.

I am home free. I have said many times, I don’t care what happens. And I really don’t. I value experience and I value all experience. And though I love my bliss as much as the next guy, if the universe delivers me something else, so be it.

I played cards when I was a kid. Some of you know. And when you play cards you play the cards you’re dealt. That’s it! There is no whining!!! There is no do-over. You get what you get and the idea is to play your hand as skillfully as you can. You should raise your play to an art if you can! You are supposed to do your best!

So the cards in your hand, or the ache in your heart, or the knife in your back is all the same. If you stab me, it’s my knife. If you break my heart, it’s my ache. And if you’re me, you’re going to make art, every single time. So that’s what I meant when I wrote this.

See, that gal was badly hurt by that man. He cut her for sure. But I know if she digs deep enough, she will uncover and be able to access something inside herself… some nugget that serves her the rest her life. And what’s that mean?

It means this guy helped her out. Unintentional, obviously but what difference does that make, when the royalties to your song roll in?

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