Best Worst Day
We each have defining moments in our lives, sometimes for us as individuals and sometimes for us as a nation or even as humanity. Many (if not most) of these defining moments are born out of negative or even tragic circumstance. The concept that I’ve been discussing with many around me for many years is what I refer to as my “Best Worst Day,” or BWD. Or more descriptively stated as a terrible day (often incomprehensibly bad) that had to happen in order for something positive (often incomprehensibly great) to follow. First, let me say that I don’t want to make light of anyone’s tragedy or downplay the pain that is suffered for each of us at different levels and in different ways. The death and tragedy of 9/11 left a lot of people with a lot of long-standing and incurable pain. However, I believe that we are built as humans with the capacity to not only deal with challenge and pain, but to find ways to leverage circumstance to continue to advance our species in ways that living