"I wanted to acknowledge luck; the chance and benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, who might not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it."
Who said it? It was Paul Newman. Newman passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer - or maybe better to say after an 83 year lifetime of fortune and corrections. This quote was shared by his assistant in an obituary that Kate and I were reading last night.
Why is this poignant to me? Because it so deftly distills much of my basic philosophy on life and so clearly differentiates two of my most internally-debated concepts: luck and providence. Remaining intentionally coy here, I'll just say that I definitely side with the former.
And why am I commenting on this here? Because I can't wait to have conversations with Jonas about this pair of concepts (years from now, sure)...and, more importantly, I can't wait to watch Jonas go through his own process of parsing this out on his own - to watch him make up his own mind. Hopefully my luck will continue, and he'll have lots of it too, so that we can share a lifetime of ever-correcting luck together.
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