The Uses of Adversity
I was reminded of a Charles Schulz Peanuts cartoon this week on GoComics that I last recall seeing when I was in college when perusing my Peanuts books. It is about adversity with Lucy "Dr. Is In" telling hapless Charlie Brown that "Adversity prepares one for the things of life." Charlie Brown gets quizzical and asks "What things?" and she replies "More adversity." That comic created a place for me to contemplate adversity seriously yet to also get the last laugh so to speak. Let me take a quick jog down Memory Lane here. I had scored a slew of Peanuts books, all of them original editions or close to it, from a childhood neighbor. Us kids would get together and trade stuff occasionally. Usually, it was crap for crap. An eye for an eye commerce. Nothing special. But, on this given day, I got the better deal by far. I have no idea what I bartered on my end but I cannot imagine it was anything worthwhile. My neighbor