Furthermore: on positive thinking

It’s nice to know you’ve still ‘got it’, as in being able to write posts that make the reader “spit tea all over the computer screen”.

That was the post on the toxicity of ‘positive thinking’ or as another loyal reader called it, “magical thinking”.

Today’s practical lesson in ‘positive thinking’:

I have to explain the concept of Murphy’s Law to Natacha. Apparently, it hasn’t reached western Africa.

I refer to Murphy’s Law here in attempting to explain my ire over the haircut I got this afternoon. A few months ago, I would have laughed it off. But, I was getting great haircuts each and every time then … because I didn’t have anywhere special to go.

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