30/09/2023
We spend so much time worried about how bad things are going to be, that we actually torture ourselves more than the thing we’re worried about ever could (that is, if it happens at all).While it’s too facile to say don’t worry, it is important to put your worries in perspective. Don’t let your worries grow out of proportion to what might actually happen. Don’t let imagination overtake reality. Don’t conflate worrying with prevention or preparation.
It was Seneca who put the best one-liner to this feeling: “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
