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A Rabbi (who had survived two bouts of cancer) described the scenario of congregants seeking his counsel during their times of despair, and inevitably they would ask, “why me?” So he wanted to know if during the good times, they also asked “why me.” Intrinsic to the “why me” question is comparison. “Why not you,” he would say. I’d never thought of it in those terms before.
* quote by Mark Twain. Cartoon for The New Yorker by Danny Shanahan [1]