For me personally, I could write for days about many different situations where adversity (逆境) 1my life. Now let me tell you one experience where I almost let adversity 2.

We had a glass studio, which was located 50 feet from our home. A couple of years ago we experienced an 3 winter; we had a lot of snow and ice. The 4 of the ice and snow 5 the roof on our studio, taking with it one of our sources of income. 6 it did fall down, we got on the roof and tried to7 the snow and ice, but when you have 5 feet of ice and temperatures of minus 20 Celsius, it was pretty 8 to do.

We had a partner come in to help us try to 9 the roof by supporting. In the end, there was 10 that could be done. The roof came down. We had moved a lot of our goods and tools from the studio 11 we lost a lot also: glass, kilns, workbenches, to name only a few of the items. It was a 12experience.

Here we were in the middle of winter with our studio collapsed. We couldn't work as we had almost 13 all the material in a building we were not using. We could have done one of two things: we could simply say that we can no longer 14 our glass business. Let me tell you that this was certainly a thought that 15 our mind. Or we could find a way to get our studio back up and running.

We picked the 16 option. We had a large barn that we were not using. So we renovated (翻新) the barn, 17 our working area and today we have a nicer studio than we 18 had. If the adversity we were 19 had not happened, we probably would 20 be working in the old studio — a studio that was less efficient.