The Breakfast of Champions
“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”–Alfred A. Montapert
I have no idea who Mr. Montapert is/was, but his sentiment needs no credentials or authentication except the reality we all know.
Problems blindside us. Setbacks, losses, disappointments, frustrations, failure. They crop up out of seemingly nowhere.
In every arena. Relationships. Marriage. Family. Career. Business. Health. And everything else.
Name the arenas of your choice. They are endless.
Been blindsided? I betcha you have. Just like me.
It ranges from a bad day on the Dow to the death of someone close to a major disaster, and everything in between. And all of it, from great to small, takes its toll on us.
And our reaction is usually the same: “How could this happen?” The implied, if not spoken, words that follow are: “To me?”
Our country is still trying to come to grips with terrorism on our home turf.
As individuals, we still can’t figure out why bad things happen to good people. Why we have to suffer. Why we can’t be happy all the time. Hey, doesn’t the God-given right to the pursuit of happiness mean it’s a God-guaranteed item-in-stock that we just have find on the right shelf?
For decades, the cereal Wheaties has been advertised as the Breakfast of Champions. We don’t need General Mills to feed us what we need to be people strong enough to triumph. Whether we like it or not, life does that, quite on its own.
–phoebe kate