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Someone once said that a pessimist is someone who can look at the land of milk and honey and see only calories and cholesterol. Who, when he sees the light at the end of the tunnel rushes ahead to blow it out?
Isn’t it better to be like the candidate who when not elected said “I came in second and my opponent came in next to last. ”
Pessimism is surely the key to misery. And some people do worry more easily than others. Pessimistically fill themselves up with anxiety faster than a dog’s fleas can multiply. Earn their PhD, in worry. Are prone to advertise in the classified sections of their local newspaper, “Motivational tapes for sale. Some never used. ”
And then there are the incurable optimists. William Pitt who used to emphasize his remarks in Parliament by shaking his crutches in the air. Robert Louis Stevenson who wrote some of the world’s finest prose while dying of tuberculosis. Or Charles Darwin who devised his theory of evolution in the few minutes each day he could see well enough to write. Or Beethoven composing his Ninth Symphony even though he was stone deaf. Alexander Pope was a hunchback but this physical affliction from writing brilliant satires. What lessons these asters of survival have to teach!
They obviously believed that, “It’s the rocks in the river that make it sing. ” And I would add, we can make it sing even more by how we place the rocks. ”
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