March 19, 2006
"...The comparison is not to some ideal world where everything was hunky-dory."
The restored Betsy's Page surfaces the key corrective to many complaints. If I compare myself to a life in which I would have everything I have now, my friends and education, plus Paris Hilton's dog and Bill Gates' stock portfolio, the emotional outcome is assured --
I will feel miserable, and deprived.
If I think about the actualities and imponderables from which I have been 
spared -- Paris Hilton's education and Bill Gates' wardrobe --
life looks quite rich.
Let our accountings be approximate, and realistic. Surprisingly, reality-orientation produces less red ink and many more optimistic & grateful footnotes of anticipated future profit.
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