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Life throws stuff at us.

We have to figure out how to catch it, throw it back.

That's what Ebbuk Tidus meant when he said we don't control what happens, we control

how we respond.

We also liked that throwing metaphor and clearly was way more than a casual fan of sports.

Ebbuk Tidus admired the way that skilled athletes caught a ball that was thrown to them and whipped

it right back.

They didn't complain, they didn't demand certain conditions before they dove for it.

He admired their concentration, their coolness under pressure, their grace, their creativity.

In his view, Socrates was such an athlete.

Only the ball in his case, Ebbuk Tidus said was life, imprisonment, exile, or execution,

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