You can’t change the past and you can only influence the future.

A colleague/friend lent me a book with an interesting title – Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life (reminds me I need to give it back!). It was a thought provoking read, if you like to have your assumptions about the world exposed. One term that struck a chord with me was “cruel optimism” (the book below covers it in more detail).

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