Of course that's the way life works, isn't it. They say something as simple as a well-placed sneeze by the right person at just the right moment can change the course of history. I can believe that.
Life is funny that way.
The quality of the life, Julia says, is a matter of how adroitly you negotiate the ten thousand obstacles that come into your path as you stumble along. At the end of life, of course . Can't avoid it. The final stumble. Now I don't happen to think that this is necessarily certified Buddhist rhetoric, but why split hairs.