
We humans are amazingly optimistic creatures – mostly, I suspect, because we don’t allow ourselves to be concerned with things we are pretty sure we can’t do anything about. A friend from another life told me humans generally abide by what he called the Fifty-Fifty Rule:
“Anything that has been going on more than 50 years has been happening forever, and farther than 50 miles away never happened at all.”
To which I offer the corollary: “If it’s going to take longer than 50 years, it will never happen.”
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