Negativity blinds us from seeing angels.

When you have a negative attitude it is hard to see all the angels you meet in the world.

I thought about this after hearing two men in complaining in the locker room.  The older complained that his friends were less willing to give him rides.  I kept quiet, but I wondered if his friends were unwilling to listen to his negative comments.  When I related this to my wife, she suggested that fewer of his friends drove anymore.

The negativity made me think of the couplet

When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you.
When you cry, you cry alone.

The actual couplet is

“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone:
…”

The poem is “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox”.  You can find it at
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45937/solitude-56d225aad9924

Thanks to my cardiologist

Today I saw my cardiologist for the sign-off on my heart surgery (see I’m back!, Getting sick is only for the rich or the well-insured, and Modern Medicine and Let Them Eat Cake Politicians).

I told her that I didn’t know whether to be mad or glad.  Mad because of all I went through for the open heart surgery and all the side effects that went with it.  Glad because of what the surgery had repaired.

Between the latest EKG results and what she heard with her stethoscope she was very pleased.  Her delight made me very optimistic for continued improvement.

P.S.  I know that she may well read this, but I still want her to know that her optimism was very contagious.