All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

— Alexander Pope

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Your state colours everything you look at, and it does so invisibly. Tired, bitter or frightened, you will find evidence for exactly that mood everywhere, and each piece will feel like an observation about the world rather than a report on your condition. The reading always seems objective from inside. This is why decisions made in a bad stretch tend to look strange later.

When your view of everything darkens at once, treat that as information about you rather than about everything. Postpone the large judgements until you have slept, eaten and had a day that went normally.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What mood were you in when you last judged someone harshly?

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