Posted by mair on June 14, 2002, at 16:33:13
In reply to I think it's rather refreshing! » mair, posted by beardedlady on June 14, 2002, at 6:09:06
Beardy
I never much liked the lemonade quote either. I guess what was depressing to me about the Churchill quote is that we talk here all the time about how poorly we react to things - our distortions and misperceptions, and for me anyway, severe overreactions to things others might take very much in stride. So this quote is telling me that 9o% of life rests in an area in which I am at my most incompetent.
You could look at it more positively as "at least these are the types of things we can control," but many of us continually chastise ourselves for not controlling things better.
Just my darkened take.
Mair
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