Part of me hates the idea of "slow and steady." But another part of me--the more experienced, wiser part of me--has learned to embrace slow. To keep pace with steady.

We can wish and hope and cross our fingers for easy all we want, but there's a relentless enemy to our comfortable, cruise-control life:

Adversity.

This is a piece you should save for a rainy day. This an "In case of emergency" piece.

If today is your rainy day, then break the glass and use accordingly.

There will come a time when it feels like all of your effort was for nothing, like a wave rushed in and wiped out your castle of sand.