“Defiance is not always about acting out. Changing your mind can defy fortune.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from Vicissitudes of Life, chapter 9
In other words
Standing up to bad luck sounds like a fight, and mostly it is not. The force that lifts people also drops them, and shouting at it changes nothing. Where you do have a say is in what you make of the swing while it happens, and that is enough to cancel a good deal of it. Handled well, a fall leaves you with something, and a rise stops going to your head.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
Elsewhere
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