We tend to talk of someone’s “meteoric rise” as a vault from obscurity to great heights. But the phrase implies an equally rapid fall. Far better to rise like an airplane or a rocket, with a plan for how you will get down again.
When things are going great, how do you prepare for when times will not be so good?
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne
What helps you maintain perspective on your place in the world?
Most of our lives, it seems, are spent in the in-between places—not accomplishing amazing things, but waiting for the train, or for the email to be returned or for the kids to be done with piano lessons. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. After all, even atoms are mostly made up of the space between their component parts.
How do you like to pass the time?
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow[s]; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway
In what ways do you feel you are better than who you used to be?
The Chanukah candles are traditionally displayed in a window, letting their light shine out for all to see. Their beauty and their testament to courage and the possibility of miracles are meant to be shared.
How do you let your light shine?
