If I told you where I heard this phrase
for the very first time, just two days ago,
it might say a bit too much about why I’d
until then never heard it. It doesn’t matter
where I heard it. Maybe, at least for the
purpose of my current meanderings, it doesn’t
even matter what it actually means. It caused
a bit of a pang in the vicinity of my heart when
I heard it articulated, as well as, I’m sure, a
not-so-subtle eyeroll that was surely noticed
by some of the folks around the table at which
I was sitting. All I could think at that moment
was What a tediously cynical world in which, in
order not to be deleterious to those around us,
we are now each expected to be pessimists!
