My experiences with this sort of thing are a bit different than most, I think; I was the sort of person often called in to handle situations that most considered impossible. To rectify things that seemed hopeless, to change a seemingly inevitable conclusion from 'negative' to 'favorable', if not straight-out 'bad' to 'good'.
I've personally found that most things like that are entirely subjective - one man's victory must be another man's defeat by necessity - but at the same time, nothing is ever as out of our control as we think it is. Even if it's just a matter of changing one's perspective on an event or an incident; everything can be rectified with enough skill, and if one doesn't have the skill to do it, there are still things like luck and favorable coincidence to take into account.
...Unfortunately, however, the weather has always been well out of our control where I'm from, no matter how much we might rage against the heavens desiring otherwise.
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I've personally found that most things like that are entirely subjective - one man's victory must be another man's defeat by necessity - but at the same time, nothing is ever as out of our control as we think it is. Even if it's just a matter of changing one's perspective on an event or an incident; everything can be rectified with enough skill, and if one doesn't have the skill to do it, there are still things like luck and favorable coincidence to take into account.
...Unfortunately, however, the weather has always been well out of our control where I'm from, no matter how much we might rage against the heavens desiring otherwise.