Why Living With a Bulletproof Vest is The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me

The Importance of Having a Burden

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths. " – Epictetus

This time, I want to talk about a difficulty, a burden, that seemed too much for me to bear. Something that, at first, I viewed as a symbol of everythin…