Do you remember a time when you felt “bulletproof”?

Superman was impervious, and Wonder Woman had those awesome bracelets, but the average person (or superhero) needs to find a realistic way to avoid those small but potentially deadly projectiles.  The first – and best – course of action is obviously to just avoid getting shot at in the first place. Barring that option, however, the next best thing to do is to duck, dodge, or otherwise evade the bullets that life will inevitably throw at you.

— Aaron Potts

Sometimes it’s really difficult to summon up the gumption to forge ahead with goals which, in morning’s light seemed achievable, but which now, after a frustrating day of stumbling effort, suddenly seem impossible to achieve.  That’s when I have to dig deep… and, in the words of Corey Adler Leidersdorff, “Go back to the time when everything was possible… remember when you were bulletproof, when the world was full of promise.”

Surprisingly, I do remember feeling bulletproof – surely that sense of invincibility was an illusion.  Yet it carried me ’round sharp corners and through tight spaces.  Call it chutzpah or call it naiveté – whatever it was, it pulled me through before I had a chance to get discouraged.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

— Helen Keller

Not so this day.  This day started in a burst of arrogance and high spirits – Continue reading » Dodging Bullets