If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain.
Adam had been on this cattle drive for several weeks already. It was hard, challenging work. Sure, he knew that; he'd been on drives before. But this time it was different. It was his first drive leaving his wife and newborn at home.
Ben had once told him when he was younger that leaving his family on the ranch while he went away was one of the hardest things to do. Adam never believed him. Now he knew how true those words were.
While he hated leaving, it made coming back and holding his loved ones again that much sweeter.