Dark Pattern (The Naturalist, #4)

by Andrew Mayne

When the news feels too normal, we stop paying attention. But bad news grabs us by the throat—which we willingly bare—especially when it’s the kind of news that feels proximal but somehow doesn’t quite touch us.

Human nature's rotten that way.

We all like to come close to death but not actually touch it.

#AdrenalineChasers

Maybe our lizard brain can’t tell the difference between our choices and our random circumstances well enough to know that bad stuff sometimes just happens and no matter what perverse pleasure you get in knowing it didn’t happen to you . . . it can.