YOU DON’T GET TO SKIP WINTER.
YOU GET TO BE READY FOR IT.
Every man I know has been hit by a hard season. A layoff. A diagnosis. A marriage that went quiet. A kid who stopped calling.
If you spend the good years consuming, winter finds you with nothing in reserve. If you spend them building, it finds you ready.
The summer you coasted.
The friends you never called back.
The body you figured you’d deal with later.
Winter comes for everyone. The prepared man suffers less and comes out stronger. The unprepared man just suffers.
Men produce more than they consume. The men who built the world you live in wrote that rule down thousands of years ago, and the books are still in print because it still holds.