I don’t like the cult of happiness in almost any of its forms. Losing your job isn’t much of an “opportunity”, pancreatic cancer is not a “window for personal growth”, and every time a door closes, a door has closed, no more. The lack of a countervailing force to the belief that there is cosmic justice to right wrongs but rarely a force to wrong rights seems dishonest to me and the whole excursion smacks of the gambler’s fallacy at best and cosmic exceptionalism at worst.
This week, we talk about that. And Chris learning to steal as instructed by an old gypsy woman.