is it wise to fear cocaine hippos?

but of course!

But of course!

What a catchphrase eh?

Imagine if you lived with the arrogance that everything is both expected and easily explained.

But of course, I’ll check the etymology online dictionary for this one:

course: c. 1300, "onward movement, motion forward, a running in a prescribed direction or over a prescribed distance; path or distance prescribed for a race, a race-course" from Old French cors "course; run, running; flow of a river" (12c.), from Latin cursus "a running; a journey; direction, track navigated by a ship; flow of a stream;" from curs- past participle stem of currere "to run" (from PIE root *kers- "to run").

The phrase ‘of course’ is related to onward movement and forward motion. This brings a new wrinkle our understanding of expectations. When you expect everything to happen exactly as it has, you actively begin to expect that anything and everything that could happen might happen. When this happens, it’s tough to shock you. You already are living with a fatalistic framework.

But of course I left that coffee there on the table that somehow was knocked onto the floor causing a pregnant mother to fall and have a miss carriage ending the second coming of Colonel Sander and in doing so have saved the world from being taken over by an unrelenting army of wild Cocaine Hippos.

Somehow in that vast net of how the fuck did we get to this moment of existence no matter how meaningless and absurd every chicken fart of a breath you’ve taken up to this moment, you can react with a cool head - but of course…

But of course I was late

But of course there was traffic

But of course it was rained out

But of course there’s a stunning view

But of course the strangest things happen

But of course we found some magic

But of course there’s another puddle

But of course there’s another hill!

But of course it hurts less than you imagine and more than you remember

But of course!

It’s a statement of acceptance in motion! But of course! I am alive. I not only accept this, I expect this. But of course! I choose! I choose fatal acceptance here and now! But of course - the statement that resigns ourselves to a fatalistic acceptance is a pathway to emotional freedom? That’s absurd!

But of course!

But of course everything worked out in the end.

Until it finally didn’t. But of course eventually luck runs out.

Then time runs out?

But of course, that was coming as well.

But of course?

But of course. Everything ends.

But of course.