The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

is practiced, as they are frequent and daily on their lips. Every matter has a dark side and a bright side, a bad side and a good side, a side from which it appears gloomy and worry-inducing, and a side from which it appears cheerful and hope-inspiring.

Some people have truly acquired the art and skill of positioning themselves toward every matter in such a way that it only falls, and must fall, upon their eyes from the gloomy, unsettling side, and with the same skill, they know how to present the same to others immediately so that they, too, can only see the dark side. It has long been a psychologically remarkable phenomenon to me that people, in the very same