On 2021-01-01 9:07 a.m., Gary wrote:

> No matter how bad things get, don't ever think it can only get better.
> There's always something worse that can happen.

That's true. There is always something worse. A few years back I was
listening to a radio show about miscarriages and one woman who called in
had had one and a friend commented that she was lucky that she already
had a couple children. The woman was really upset about that and said
that a person could not say anything worse to a woman who had just lost
a baby by miscarriage. Well, I have to admit that my mind often jumps
at the opportunity to consider all the possibilities. Luckily, the
filter sometimes works, but I can tell you that I immediately considered
dozens of things that would have been so much more offensive to someone
who was so sensitive that she took that well meaning remark so badly.