Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 29, 2023

My planning resolutions are as effective as standing on railroad tracks and wearing earbuds.

I’ve always been defensively pessimistic, wanna fight about it?

Everyone: “Hey, he was right, it did kill him. Yay!”

Did my son write this? I have never met anyone so happily pessimistic. He feels bad when he feels good for fear he’ll feel worse when he feels better. He thinks the greens in his salad days likely will be poison ivy.

Thank you. I just learned I’m the Bluebird of Happiness.

“immiserating” that is a new one for me.

I instantly knew what it meant, but I don’t think I have ever heard it before.

finally, the perfect, concise word for what I excel at.

“You know some Russian Gypsy songs have as their theme, so to speak, how happy it is to be miserable. Others say how miserable it is to be happy.”

—The Limeliters

Optimism is the leading cause of disappointment.

They get a chance to use words like “immiserating” (which I have never seen in 65 years of reading thousands of books). :)

I’ve been that way, feeling the Fates conspire against us, but accepting and anticipating the twist you would think would reduce their joy at playing dice with our lives.