We can be scared and worried about the future, or we can look at it as a collection of happy surprises that lie outside the path of our imagination.

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Though events have shoved him down this path, he is not remotely happy about it.

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Notice all the lines go up, each following a roughly similar path. (Folks in Japan are especially happy and enriched.) This underscores the new findings.

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