In the military we had a term called skating. In that usage it meant getting over or getting past something without suffering. If you were a master skater you would find a way to avoid the drudgery of most assignments or a way to avoid the assignments altogether. You just had to have an eye for avoiding pain. If you were successful many would marvel at you as someone who knew instinctively how to save yourself from the daily insults that most were born to suffer in the military. Since those days I have lived my life as best as I could in pursuit of the goal of being a skilled skater. The following story in the next post will give you some details on how I achieved an early retirement through perfecting the art of skating.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. - Thomas Jefferson
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