The Side Effects of Endorphins

144 as a large number it’s kind of a gross number.

I have never been into the law of large numbers. I never found dating or even hooking up to be a game of large numbers. I always looked at if I was going to ask somebody out there had to be a future in it. Dating lots of people was an odd strategy to me.

I take the same approach to writing. I haven’t had many short stories published, maybe seven or eight. I tend not to send out many stories to many places. I’m choosy whom I send my stories.

Many would say that is not a good strategy but that’s me

286 light years is a very large number. That’s how long it took the light to get here to make you look that way. Good things take time.

And the common thread with writing and dating is this. When I am rejected for a story, it affects me for a while. It disappoints me it saddens me but eventually I get over it.

So who knows? If you put it in one big mathematical equation, does the elation of one acceptance loom much bigger than many many rejections.

I remember when I was a little kid. I was a Rams fan. I loved the Los Angeles Rams but when they lost, I took it hard when they won, I was happy. My level of happiness was much less than the magnitude of my sorrow during a loss. Maybe that’s a non sequitur. Who knows. That’s probably why I don’t follow football anymore.

I submitted three short stories today. That’s very much unlike me so if I appear grouchy a week from now that’s why.