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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Salty
What do you do when everything you count on has collapsed
Packing a rucksack when you’re fifty just isn’t the same as when you’re twenty. — Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
When you are young you envision your life unfolding along a predictable path. I will do these things and reach for these goals. There will be obstacles along the way but I will work hard and triumph.
Something knocks you off your path. You dust yourself off and scramble up the ridge to rejoin it, a bit battered but wiser. Or you look around and spy another path and head in that direction instead. Why this path is even better, you tell yourself. Thank God I left the first one.
You hit a fork in the road, make a choice, and continue on. Your path may split, twist, and turn beyond your recognition carrying you to places you hadn’t dreamed of for good and evil.
And then a force of nature sweeps away not only your path but all the viable paths around you. You sit stunned. Now what?
Raynor and Moth Winn lost their house, income, and hope of growing old together in the same week. Raynor writes their story in the British bestseller, The Salt Path.
