--- via Paul S on Substack, in Trying to see a bigger picture, 4 May 2024
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However, I have been told multiple times that recovery is not a straight-line process, and that I must not let a few bad days distract from a long-term upward trend. Or as one of my oldest friends said to me last summer when he visited me from Houston, a good mantra to repeat at times like these is “this is not my new forever”. And he learned that from his wife. And she learned it from NASA. Because that's what she's taught in astronaut training. Yeah, seriously. Anyway, the point being: if that's what they teach the best people in the world, someone of her calibre, then it is clearly good enough for me. In which spirit, I will try to concentrate here on positives, rather than wallowing in self-pity.
