Roadblocks are simply shortcuts to something better than I had planned!

Some roadblocks are detours toward something better. Some are just walls, and the honest response is grief before it is optimism. The useful version of this idea is narrower. A block forces you off a route you had stopped questioning. You take the side street and find the bakery — which you would never have looked for, because the main road was working fine.

When something closes today, resist deciding immediately whether it is a gift or a loss. You don't have the information yet.

Ask instead what it has prevented that you would never have examined on your own.