4092: Oh, Linda by Josie Michelle Davis on Life Lessons

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🗓️ 21 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily. Oh, Linda, by Josie Michelle Davis of josemichel davis.com.
0:08.0	I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you articles to bring a bit more inspiration, motivation, and happiness to your day,
0:15.0	a little daily practice that compounds over time. So with that, let's keep compounding as we optimize your life.
0:25.5	Oh, Linda, by Josie Michelle Davis of josemichel davis.com.
0:31.4	Hiking through the rainforest can be a magical thing. The lush greenery all around, the far-off
0:37.3	sounds of birds you've only ever seen in a zoo chatting with one another, the lush greenery all around, the far-off sounds of birds you've only ever seen
0:39.2	in a zoo chatting with one another, the light rain on your face, and the deep smell of mossy rocks.
0:45.6	What's not so magical is getting stuck in a downpour under a lean-to with a woman named Linda,
0:51.3	who insists on calling everyone she's ever met and loudly talking to them about how
0:55.4	her arthritis is putting a bit of a damper on her dating life. I don't mind rain. For a few minutes,
1:01.7	me and Frank stood together under the lean-to, watching the rain fall with only the steady beats
1:06.1	of drops falling around us. I love the sound of rain, probably because I'm a fairly privileged white girl
1:11.8	whose only really bad experiences with rain were when it put a bit of a damper on our family's day at
1:17.0	Epcot and I had to buy children's large sweatpants because my jeans got soaked through.
1:22.2	Seriously though, why does it always rain on Epcot Day? I mostly find rainstorms charming and
1:27.2	even calming and was perfectly happy to
1:30.1	stand with my husband's arms wrapped around me, watching the rain until it slowed. And then,
1:35.9	Linda came, while standing on the edge of the lean-to, looking down the hill when a middle-aged
1:40.5	woman came towards me, waving frantically and yelling, I found you. I instantly attempted
1:45.5	to hide behind Frank, which doesn't work so well since I'm a nearly six-foot-tall tree of a gal.
1:51.3	The woman quickly realized that me and my husband were not the date that she had lost on the mountain,
1:56.4	but decided it was best to hang out with us under the shelter anyway. I did what I always do in awkward
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