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It can't all be wedding cake.

You didn't think it was all going to go perfectly, did you?

That life was sunshine and kittens?

That it would all be an upward climb, an unbroken string of successes and achievements

that as long as you put the work in,

everything would work out? Fortune doesn't care about our plans and preferences. No, Seneca

reminds us she behaves as she pleases. There are tough moments. There is heartbreak. There is

betrayal. Things break. Luck turns. Even when things seem to be going

our way for a period of time, Seneca warns us not to misinterpret this kindness, because fortune has

given as well as taken away. The next turn a fortune's wheel might be a bad one. And this shouldn't

surprise us, and it shouldn't make us despair.

It has to be this way. Just as there is no world without shameless people, to borrow a reminder,

Mark Surrealist gives himself in meditations. There is no life in which some rain does not fall.

So tell yourself that. That's what this moment is. This was bound to happen. It was unavoidable that

this would happen. This is my number coming up. I could have never avoided it. All we can do is

accept it, process it, and focus, as always, on responding well. Creatine isn't just for building muscle. It's actually a daily essential for

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