tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post6544966136832051463..comments2023-04-07T23:13:18.502-10:00Comments on Marks in the Margin: Portable HellRichard Katzevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-30234185430448544472014-11-30T13:42:30.822-10:002014-11-30T13:42:30.822-10:00"An optimist thinks this is the best of all p..."An optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist <b><i>knows</i></b> it."<br /><br /><br />J. Robert OppenheimerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-54254278012088071062014-08-16T05:27:28.803-10:002014-08-16T05:27:28.803-10:00Yes. Send me an email.Yes. Send me an email.Richard Katzevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-30115406673943703482014-08-16T05:25:13.775-10:002014-08-16T05:25:13.775-10:00Well, I'm wishing it most fervently and I am h...Well, I'm wishing it most fervently and I am hanging in. Is there anything else I should be doing?<br /><br />Lindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-89619740908460734802014-08-16T04:47:05.087-10:002014-08-16T04:47:05.087-10:00Hang in there, Linda. There's still a ray of ...Hang in there, Linda. There's still a ray of sunshine in the air. Do not forget all that you are grateful for. The future can be even brighter if you wish. And these things have a way of working themselves out. But for now, we could be doing a lot better.Richard Katzevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-49892481038390396042014-08-16T04:33:25.129-10:002014-08-16T04:33:25.129-10:00Just kill me now.
Your post pretty much sums up h...Just kill me now.<br /><br />Your post pretty much sums up how I fell this morning when I came up for air and tried to catch up on the week's events.<br /><br />Your mind-frame coincides with my own. It's not that the world and humanity are worse than they have ever been, they are just awful in inventive new ways. That's the reality. It's a wonderful, modern world we live in.Lindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-57333651386048392242014-08-14T05:15:22.201-10:002014-08-14T05:15:22.201-10:00I certainly didn't mean to "bring you dow...I certainly didn't mean to "bring you down." Rather that is today's reality. It doesn't depress me but I personally feel helpless to do anything about them.<br /><br />And my list of the good things, those I am grateful for is just as long, if not longer.<br /><br />But the mind, at least my mind, doesn't work that way. We live with the aversives, the negatives, the things we don like. It's a very adaptive response, well studied by the cognitive sciences, writers like Daniel Kahneman. It's a matter of how your frame the world and it seems that's the way I do.<br />Richard Katzevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-69103467730573841602014-08-14T04:56:42.050-10:002014-08-14T04:56:42.050-10:00Wow, you really know how to bring a person down.
...Wow, you really know how to bring a person down. <br /><br />Yes, there are lots of bad things in the world, there always have been. Some we can do something about others we cannot. What about a list of things to be glad about or grateful for? One must figure out a way to balance these things or risk being stuck in a perpetual depression.Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.com