There are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. But that may short-change the future—which starts by our envisioning something better.
If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness.
At a recent bookstore appearance, a gentleman raised his hand to tell me that six days after he started reading Positivity his friends and family started calling him "the new Jim."