Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Hardship draws attention and sympathy; a long stretch of ease draws neither, and does its own quiet damage. When nothing pushes back, your judgment stops being tested, comfort narrows into fussiness, and small inconveniences begin to feel like injuries. Good fortune is pleasant and it is also unexercising. The difficulty is that nothing warns you while it is happening.

If things are going well, put something genuinely hard on your own calendar this week. Work that might not come off, or a conversation you keep postponing. Keep one thing in your life that stays difficult on purpose.