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05-19-2015, 06:07 PM
http://flavorwire.com/519098/how-matlock-made-me-an-optimist
By Jason Bailey on May 18, 2015 11:30am
I’m an optimist. It feels odd to say so, because such a quality seems counterintuitive to being a good writer, or a good parent, or (let’s face it) a human being alive in the year 2015. But I’ve realized over the past few years that, although I do live in the kind of moment-to-moment fear and self-loathing that characterizes such identifiers, I generally operate under the assumption that, eventually, everything’s going to turn out fine. This is not the result of some sort of spiritual awakening, meditation technique, or years of therapy. No, I’m pretty sure it’s because I spent so much of my youth watching Matlock. …
By Jason Bailey on May 18, 2015 11:30am
I’m an optimist. It feels odd to say so, because such a quality seems counterintuitive to being a good writer, or a good parent, or (let’s face it) a human being alive in the year 2015. But I’ve realized over the past few years that, although I do live in the kind of moment-to-moment fear and self-loathing that characterizes such identifiers, I generally operate under the assumption that, eventually, everything’s going to turn out fine. This is not the result of some sort of spiritual awakening, meditation technique, or years of therapy. No, I’m pretty sure it’s because I spent so much of my youth watching Matlock. …