“I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.”
― Samantha Hunt
When have you been surprised by your emotional reaction to an event?
Catastrophic events will happen—there’s no getting around it. But those best able to handle drastic circumstances are those who have deliberately and carefully trained for them, learning in controlled environments what to do when circumstances get out of control.
What have you deliberately learned in order to be more prepared when the unexpected strikes?
“Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
When have you gotten help from an unexpected source?
Ice cream is supposed to stay neatly on top of its cone, and no one gets a cone expecting the ice cream to plummet down. And yet, all too often it does. Ice cream cones, it turns out, are an expression of faith.
What do you believe in, even if it has disappointed you before?
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
― Mary Renault
What have you done to prepare for natural disasters?
