We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.