I recently experienced a few significant incidences in my life. Some of them were pretty bad, while others were very good. This got me thinking about perception and how it can drastically alter our state of mind.
In just a few short weeks, my computer broke down, I got two new jobs, I was called in for jury duty, and a number of other incidents occurred. Looking back on these events, I thought to myself that I had been very lucky and that things have generally turned out well.
However, this made me wonder: is it just my positive thinking that’s causing me to feel this way? For this reason, I decided to perform a little test. I wanted to see if I could paint the last few weeks as an awful, terrible turn of events in my past. It was surprisingly easy to do.








