Lucie Retail

Resilience: the art of turning away from probability

Life pushes me early on to travel around the world. I quickly develop a great curiosity for humanity, its emotions, its experiences, its strategies. I then feel constrained by beliefs and powerful mechanisms whose source and manual I cannot see. Something is not free. I then embark on a quest that will lead me to seek outside of myself, until life teaches me. 2023. After spending 40 years trying to control my existence, I find myself in a hospital bed, freshly amputated from my feet and hands. I see my deepest fears invade me, and my most tenacious beliefs explode. What then appeared as a cataclysm will ultimately be the awakening I have always awaited. Two years later, I become the first quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Fuji. What if we finally learned that it is behind the veil of experience, behind the temptation to prejudge the decor, in surrender and total trust at the heart of any situation, that elevation lies, the gift of inner transformation? How to look at the limits we believe we have, how to embody the power we are in our choices of perception regarding the unfolding of events… Turning away from probability means refusing to look through the keyhole of fear or logic. Life mocks preconceived ideas, it escapes all rules. By deciding to embrace the impossible, it gives birth to the unexpected. And to manifest to us, it waits for only one thing: it must first be our choice.