I heard a story recently about this negative barber that had a customer in his chair and he said to him, “I hear you’re going to Europe; you shouldn’t do that. The weather is going to be bad in Rome, there is bombing and there’s strife and strikes in London. You think you’re going to get to see the Pope, but he won’t give you an audience, you just shouldn’t go.”

About a month later, the same man was in the chair, and the barber said to him, “You didn’t take my advice; you went to Europe after all. And I told you it was going to be bad. Wasn’t the weather bad in Rome? You didn’t have a good time in England did you? And I know you didn’t see the Pope.” But the fellow interrupted him and said, “Rome has never been more beautiful. The sky was blue and spring was breaking out all over. And Eng…