'I've spent 40 years imagining everything that could go wrong. I've trembled in the wee hours of the morning. I've run scenarios like an actuary. I've prepared for every disaster, however unlikely. Damn. Even I couldn’t have imagined this.' ADHDReader
for a decade or so. Most recently, I downloaded that user-friendly meditation app and I let the nice British man lull me into a few moments of relaxation every morning. He gently taught me about living in the moment and I swear to you: I listened., I learned a simple test to distinguish fear from worry. Are you responding to an actual threat? Then it’s fear. Are you responding to theof a threat? Then it’s worry. At a rational level, I knew that what I was doing was worrying, not fearing.
It’s not just me, either. Anecdotally, all of my anxiety puddle friends have reported feeling less anxious these days. There’s something about a true crisis that, for me at least, makes my imagined crises seem like the flighty imaginings of an overprivileged teenager. I have a job. I have a home. I have my health. I will not allow myself perverse fantasies in which I don’t have these things because millions of people don’t, in real life. It’s no longer a 4 am worry to them. It’s real now.When the world is in actual crisis, you stop worrying about pretend-crises.
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