Rain is much more fun when I'm running. I call it 'free coolant' then, and take it as a challenge. I actually feel energized by the sheer knowledge this will demoralize many a participant, thus giving an edge to whoever doesn't care or benefits from it. Yet, for some reason that escapes me, I keep noticing how pissed I am when it rains while I'm walking around the city. Stressors act as sources of energy and motivation only if you allow them to. Otherwise, you will be crushed under the weight of all the things you don't control accumulating in the background. The effect of stressors is largely determined by our beliefs about stress itself. People believing stress to be enhancing and helpful for growth and performance have more adaptative physiological and behavioral responses than those believing stress is debilitating, harmful and must be avoided (Crum et al. 2013). Reframing stress as excitement before engaging in a stressful activity can be enough to benefit from the positive effects of stress, even though there are no meaningful physiological divergences between the two. This is called *arousal reappraisal* (Brooks 2014). It follows that post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth must follow the same pattern, only exacerbated by the nature of the trauma. We're not talking here about the consequences of *chronic* stress, which differ widely from those of isolated events and are much more detrimental, no matter how little the amplitude. Consider the Chinese water torture, for instance. One drop of water falling onto one's head over a long period of time is enough to cause mental deterioration. Isolated events, however, can be framed as either challenges or dangers; and it may very well be the case that this is the difference between one growing, or shrinking, provided one's physical integrity is not threatened in the process, of course. Framing matters.