“Let’s have a hand for that young cowboy
And wish him better luck next time;
And hope we see him up in Fargo,
Or somewhere farther down the line.
This time he sure drew a bad one;
One that nobody could ride.
But by the way he pulled his hat on
You knew he’d be there for the fight.”
– Lyric from Lyle Lovett’s “Farther Down The Line”
Sometimes the bull knocks us off. Sometimes we ride him to the buzzer.
It’s in how we respond that we make our names, though.
The sooner we accept that it’s the fight — the ongoing challenge, the effort to make a difference and the willingness to learn and grow on our way to making it — the sooner we can focus on getting up, pulling our hat on, and getting ready for the next ride.
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