Let me begin with something uncomfortable.

If nothing ever went wrong in your life…

would anyone want to hear the story?

No tension.

No heartbreak.

No failure.

No betrayal.

No risk.

Just steady comfort.

It might be pleasant to live.

But it wouldn’t be compelling to narrate.

And that’s where the question begins:

Does hardship make a good story…

and when it happens to us, we simply call it reality?

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