Lessons from the beach: when a storm comes your way

Dan Fitch
1 min readJul 30, 2018

Storms come when you are at the beach.

Storms come into your life (even when you are not at the beach).

Today, I walked away from the beach. I saw lighting, I heard thunder (thunder, thunder… thanks Imagine Dragons).

And I left.

An hour later it was sun and fun.

Did I need to leave?

When we come across storms in our lives, there are an enormous amount of choices in our days. We can handle problems in so many ways.

What do you do with a storm?

Do you ride it out?

Do you go back home (and maybe regret it?)

Do you take solace in the internet and technology? Maybe it makes the moments that you want to avoid go by faster…

Our strength in a storm is a part of how we deal with anything.

Some people will say how you deal with anything is how you deal with everything- how do you deal with a storm?

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Dan Fitch
Dan Fitch

Written by Dan Fitch

Helping kids communicate is my day job. Wading through my thoughts to get them out here.

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