Yhprum's Law (The Anti-Murphy Law)
Anti-Murphy's Law
Perspective
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. How would you like that axiom being your legacy? Your Law? Murphy’s Law is as pessimistic as it is unsound, and not what I would spend energy entertaining. I would not accept it. In fact I would lean more towards Marcus Aurelius’ interpretation of nature in Meditations, that “nothing that is according to nature can be evil”. Therefore death and sickness are not evil, just natural, not fair, just essential.
“Everything that can work, will work”. The Yhprum's Law, or Anti-Murphy Law. A pleasant alternative to the former, this Law exists purely for hope when there is none. Think of our current economic recession (using the former definition of recession being two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth) and how we have had global disasters pushed on us year after year from the media. The Fed have been tediously raising rates to counter the recession. The one benefit of the expectation of a recession or disaster, is that you can make changes to curb its effects. This is the Yhprum’s Law. That when the projection is negative, things can go right! Without the negative outlook, would the outcome be so positive?
What separates the two laws is perspective.
When you have a positive projection or no projection (“just vibes” as the tiktokers say), that would mean that anything that goes wrong is Murphy’s Law.
When you have a negative projection, anything that occurs that is better than the initial projection would allude to Anti-Murphy’s law.
The COVID initial death estimation was around 2.35 million Americans. No politics involved (trying to be a place you don’t have to think about politics), but things looked dark. Murphy’s Law would state that, hey, its going to be 2.35 million dead American’s, at least. But all things that could go wrong did not go wrong. Despite the division, the pandemic is over and the American death count is 1.1 million. The Yhprum Law came into play, because at the end of the pandemic, everything that could work, did end up working. Americans actually banded together for a whopping two weeks. The death toll dwarfed the projected death toll. We found a way to beat it, long story short, and I believe what could have gone right, did go right.
Next time something bad happens and it rains on your sunny day off, remember, if it was projected as a hurricane instead of rain, you would say that everything that could go right did go right instead of everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Therefore nothing is wrong, things are how they are meant to be, like the old Chinese Parable “Maybe so, maybe not. We'll see”.
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