1️⃣ “Things could be so much better”
2⃣ “Things could be so much worse”
These are both true statements, but there's an asymmetry between them.
Improvement is a tightrope; ruin is the whole canyon.
At any given moment there are only a handful of ways to make life better, but an infinite number of ways to shatter it...
yet we sit and mope about the fraying thread of the tightrope instead of thanking gravity, and God, we’re not in free-fall.