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You're going to get knocked down.
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A long business relationship will come to a sudden end.
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A contract won't be renewed.
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A lover will call it a day.
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People will suddenly be weird with you.
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They'll keep you out of lovely things and you won't know why.
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You'll read about yourself on social media and every worst fear will be confirmed.
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Quite a lot of things go wrong over a lifetime, and you'll want to die and throw it all in and quit this painful world.
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When you look at a child, this is what's coming to them.
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That's what makes it moving to look at a baby sleeping.
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You're looking at innocence through the lens of painful experience.
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Oh my, they're going to suffer and there's simply nothing you can do to help them.
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Apart from one thing.
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Teach them that the suffering is normal.
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It isn't a sign that life has gone wrong.
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It's an ordinary part of everyone's biography.
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The only way is to learn to fight.
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The temptation will be to withdraw under a rock, to pull up the drawbridge to go into a shell.
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But the challenges are like a fire, a bed of coals you'll have to walk across.
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The fight is to be expected, the difficulties are a sign that things are on track.
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That you're being rejected, that there are haters, isn't evidence that your life is a ruin.
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It's proof that you found something worth living for.