Sometimes we find wisdom in the most unlikely places. A few years ago I walked into the bathroom at the Green Frog, a coffee shop in Palouse, Washington. There, hanging on the wall beside the toilet, was a small, framed wall hanging, not unlike an old time cross stitch. It said:
They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But I say that what doesn't kill you messes you up for a really long time and you're lucky to get it together ever again.
I laughed until I cried. The sarcastic edge of that little piece of poetry so captured what I was feeling at the time. It was a dark time for me, my "dark night of the soul." I scrambled for a scrape of paper and jotted down the words of wisdom before I left the Green Frog. These words have been taped to my desk since, a reminder of where I've been.
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