Merxyriles writes in meditations that our actions can be impeded. He says, the impediment to action advances action. Which stands in the way becomes owit. This is my book, the obstacle is the way. The idea being that stuff happens, but this stuff is also an opportunity. In any and all situations there contains inside them an opportunity to practise virtue or irritate. To be our best, to do our best, perhaps not in the way we would have chosen - nevertheless.