If not now, when?
On finding gratitude in hindsight
The trouble is everything interesting happened to me before 2019, I complain. So nothing since? he asks, crestfallen. I want to explain negativity bias, how it clouds the moments—Australian accents at the coliseum, long table dinners, vast springs of hot turquoise, steam, sulphur, rock, 16th century staircases and choppy Wi-Fi, how he held my hand in th…
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