7/9/10

wrong/right

Asked "What's wrong?," many people will decline to discuss it by simply saying "Nothing."

We're not often asked "What's right?"; but someone of a pessimistic bent might also reply "Nothing." As in "Nothing ever works around here" or "Nothing seems to go my way" or "Zathras can never have anything nice."

But a realist such as myself -- neither a pessimist nor an optimist -- might answer the same. Because to paraphrase the Doobie Brothers, "Nothing is just alright with me."

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