The race isn’t always won by the swift, and the battle isn’t always won by the strong. Life simply doesn’t distribute outcomes in neat proportion to talent, effort, or even character. Chance touches everyone, and it has a way of arriving when we least expect it. That can feel unfair, and sometimes it is. But it also reveals something that can steady us if we let it: the world outside us is never fully controllable. Which means the most important work we do is not mastering circumstances, but strengthening the inner life that meets them.
