Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Neither condition is pure. A good stretch comes with its own anxieties, chiefly the fear of losing what you now have and the flatness that arrives once a thing is achieved. A hard stretch carries its own supplies: clarity about what matters, people who show up, and the fact that hope is easier when things can only improve.

If things are going well, name what you are quietly afraid of and make some provision for it. If they are going badly, name the two or three things that are genuinely better than they were, and do not let the general weather swallow them.