Can You Feel It?

The depressive controls reality through their negative view of it. They’re never disappointed while Dr Pangloss, proclaiming "all’s for the best in the best of all possible worlds," lives in a pipe dream whose positive prognostications are ultimately harmful. Narcissistically grandiose individuals may feel their wishes can bring about dreams. The reality of these delusions is directly proportional to their impossibilities. Sure you can fly into the eye of the hurricane in a weather plane but, on the ground, challenging the heart of the storm will only wreak more havoc. The naysayers and chronic Cassandras may not meet up with catastrophe but their downside is the failure to seize the day,  take advantage of opportunity and even learn to lose. 

read "Another Hundred Years of Solitude" by Francis Levy, HuffPost

and listen to "Can You Feel It" by The Jacksons