Cut the Cord

March 26

If you want to see your life as a singular chain of negative events, you absolutely can.

If you want to see it as a series of great moments, that is your right.

You could even, for the sake of the argument, see your life as a deeply interconnected, circular pattern of moments in which you get to eat peanut butter punctuating an otherwise boring, listless sea of “other” experiences.

The truth is that everyone who goes around saying nonsense sentences like “history repeats itself” and “time is circular” and “where is the peanut butter” almost invariably prove themselves correct. But none of those people could tell you the ways in which history is circular until they’ve already happened.

Is it then more useful to cut the cord? To severe the assumed connection between negative and positive events, and see both as equally being just part of the normal variance of life itself?

Or you could order more peanut butter.

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