I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no-one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.*
Seneca

Ritual and routine alone do not normally achieve such changes in our imagination and character on their own, but confrontations with our own woundedness and darkness often can.**
Richard Rohr

WordPress’ spellcheck doesn’t appear to
recognise the word woundedness – instread
wanting to replace it with roundedness –
Though, I guess, we do something similar,
Aiming for the appearance of a well-rounded life
before others, turning away
from the woundedness and hurt,
Yet, when I have faced and listened to and
learnt from these,
A better path has appeared.^

*Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
**Richard Rohr’s The Tears of Things;
^More tomorrow.