Article October 5, 1974 Issue

What Are You Expecting?

HELEN R. CONROYD

What are you expecting to see, hear, feel, experience, today or tomorrow or in eternity?

Do you perhaps call yourself a pessimist and anticipate the worst? Maybe you claim that to expect the worst is best, because then whatever happens has to be better than you expected.

Bottom-of-the-pit pessimism and cynical pragmatism are cut from the same cloth—the cloth making up the many cloaks of the old devil, fear. Evil wrapped in its own deceit—which we need to uncloak as nothingness, impotence.

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