Alain de Botton and Mark Trail

Alain de Botton, writing in The New York Times:

We should learn to accommodate ourselves to ‘wrongness,’ striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.

And Mark Trail, speaking in today’s Mark Trail:

“Come on, baby, it’s not as though I plan on bad things happening!”

[Not perfect synchronicity: the de Botton piece is from May, but the front page of the online Times has a link to it today.]