10 Curse-Blessings to Ponder

middle fingers from the monkey's paw

I’ve been readings about genies, semantic trickery, systemic tipping points and wartime propaganda methods—because we live in a totally normal moment, and these are appropriate rabbits holes to squirm down into, right? Ahem. Anyway.

There sure are a lot of ways to be gifted a spectacular fate!

MAYBE, by being more frequently skeptical of casually blathered linguistics we just might avoid signing our names on contracts written-up by sneaky djinn-like entities.

I mean, I wish.

1: The GOAT curse-blessing

2: The gifted kids’ fear

3: The Romeo & Juliet ending

4: The golden handcuffs that prevent you from hugging anyone

5: The hermit’s madness

6: The danger of being in proximity to large, red buttons

7: The Cake-haver’s conundrum

8: If Robert Frost’s path forked into Mordor

9: The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

10: The highest point of a brakeless roller coaster