- …..y’know, I wasn’t one bit happy with what happened to me last night but, on the other hand, I can very readily envision a million other worse things which might have transpired but didn’t. And that thought offers me some much-needed peace of mind and a soothing poultice for my tormented soul. Yeah, I fucked up royally and made a bad decision, and it undoubtedly won’t be the last time in my life I do that either. But when I step back to clear my head, rationally assess the situation, and consider perspective—Yes, especially consider perspective!!!—what happened to me last evening was just small potatoes when compared to bigger, more transcendent features of my existence here on this tiny blue planet. And thus I can take mucho solace in that thought: What actually happened versus worse things that could have happened, and I’m talking about arrantly realistic possibilities here too, not esoterically unrealistic calamities like a rogue asteroid striking Earth or having my home sucked into a giant, previously unidentified sinkhole or being trampled to death by Sasquatch during a carefree hike in the mountains of central Washington. I am thoroughly dismayed and not at all happy right now—I can and will frankly admit that much—but I also know I could quite easily be a whole lot more sad for a nearly infinite number of valid reasons…..
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