Positive thinking is very in at the moment. But it’s utter nonsense. If you’re very lonely, say, it doesn’t help to tell yourself that you’re really only the world’s smallest party. Because the truth is, if you just keep telling yourself you’re a “highly exclusive club”, you’ll stay one. Ronja von Rönne writes about all the little things that make life intolerable. Today isn’t going to work for me is a selection of her best writing from Welt am Sonntag and her blog Sudelheft, as well as brand-new texts. Fresh, funny, and irreverent, provocative and pointed, Ronja von Rönne tackles the way we live our lives with intellectual and verbal acuity.
