It’s an aphorism I’ve kept in my mind through a *lot* of life’s ugly travails and misfortunes this past 20-odd years, along with “This, Too, Shall Pass”. Together, the two lines are wonderful, complementary views of coping with life’s vicissitudes; trouble ain’t forever – but sometimes, the only way past a problem is to finesse, claw or bludgeon your way all the way to the other side of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through divorce, dips in the employment situation, post-divorce shenanigans, teenage problems, pandemics, riots and all of life’s other ups and downs, both aphorisms have been priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original line was from Tom Sizemore, as Sergeant Horvath in “Saving Private Ryan”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sizemore didn’t write the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if anyone else – John Krasinski or RuPaul or Mark Wahlberg or even Tom Hanks or Morgan Freeman, even a young Clint Eastwood – had delivered the line any other way, it wouldn’t have had the same impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But something about the way Sizemore delivered that line made it memorable enough to keep it front and center all these years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n