<story><title>Life is Beautiful</title><url>http://www.zeldman.com/2010/05/11/life-is-beautiful/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>He&apos;s moved on from 2009&apos;s year of negativity when the divorce seemed anything but a beautiful dance of protons:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/1558664990&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/1558664990&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#38; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/12644932699&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/12644932699&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it was only six months ago when he said it&apos;s necessary to have been abandoned, betrayed and ridiculed and to have a &quot;restless, broken heart&quot; in order to succeed: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/2009/10/22/dirty-little-secret-of-success/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.zeldman.com/2009/10/22/dirty-little-secret-of-suc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just his own output seems to demonstrate that maybe it does take some pain to feel truly grateful for what you do have, but, sadly, I doubt most people will appreciate that until, well, they&apos;ve been through the mill too.</text></comment>
<story><title>Life is Beautiful</title><url>http://www.zeldman.com/2010/05/11/life-is-beautiful/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eitally</author><text>As the father of a [teething] toddler [with a chest cold] and someone who has to travel with increasing frequency, I completely understand how Jeff felt last night.  I&apos;m not sure how he drew a connection between the awesomeness of family and the beautiful proton dance at the office, but if the point was to reemphasize the importance of perspective, it was a good read.&lt;p&gt;This (posted on HN a few weeks ago), is quite a bit more coherent, though: &lt;a href=&quot;http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspective/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspectiv...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>