In 1953, George and Barbara Bush lost their daughter Robin to leukemia. She was three years old. Barbara's hair turned white that year — she was 28. By anyone's expectation, mine included, their grief should have defined the rest of their lives.
Instead they made a decision: they would wake up every morning and be happy. It's an almost astounding level of mental discipline. The ability not to ignore your horrible loss but to say life is not over. I can choose how I feel.
It's not a coincidence that he became president and she raised one. More importantly, they stayed married 73 years. "You have two choices," she said decades later. "You can be happy or you can be unhappy. Just choose to be happy." This is what's key: that mindset wasn't influencing the outcome. The mindset was the outcome.
We tend to think of resilience as a trait people have, but it looks more like a series of small decisions, made unglamorously, that become habitual. Eventually, you'll even forget you're making them. The Bushes figured this out 70 years before the placebo sleep researchers did. Worth taking seriously.
@ABC Ah yes thank you I feel so much safer now that a 19 year old who's been here since 8 years old got removed for ignoring a removal order from 2015... when she was 9? Fucks sake
The Boston Red Sox are acquiring right-hander Sonny Gray in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, sources tell ESPN. Red Sox get the veteran who said he would waive his no-trade clause to leave. First on the news was @JonHeyman.
[first night as a dj]
someone: do you take requests
me: what? i can’t hear you
them: i said do you take requests
[stopping the music, everyone in the club stops dancing and turns to look at me]
me: what?
Jacob Misiorowski has pitched in 5 career games and is heading to the All-Star Game yet Ceddanne Rafaela is playing at an MVP level and gets no respect.