Our natural and innate deeds, however divergent, in all degrees, are harmonious, contingent upon these being ours; those that characterise us and are possessed by us.
Embrace the “big picture;” principally in adversity: misfortune, defeat, stagnation and departure. Consider these, in their entirety, from afar.
How far you have come…
“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. “
~ Emerson
A Classicist Writes... 
aka reversion to the mean ….
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