Times sportswriter Harvey Araton wrote last week that "Suffering is good. It reinforces character, resolve and commitment. Experienced in public it exposes vulnerability. Handled with class, it heightens likability."

Talk about imparting the Secrets of the Universe!  This is a one stop shop verity which resonates very strongly with me.

After growing up in the carefree, "Happy Days" 1950s I took things for granted and as a consequence experienced a devastating failure in my early adulthood which changed my life and transformed me.

And you?