We worry because we care. That’s human.
We might care about what might happen or about someone’s well-being or a myriad of other things.
Worrying is the act of suffering now for a future state we are unsure of.
It is based on stories we are making up in our heads.
It’s almost never helpful because worrying tends to trend toward the negative. Rarely are we making these stories up with a fairy tale ending?
We think it’s helpful to play the various simulations in our head, but more times than not, the stories don’t end up exactly as we planned them anyways. They almost never do.
We never truly know what happens until it happens.
We may not be able to fully stop our worrying but we might consider combating the negativity by creating a more positive outcome of that future state.
Something that moves away from doom and gloom and becomes more sunshine and rainbows.
Because if we’re going to fabricate a story of something that hasn’t happened yet wouldn’t it be better to give it a more optimistic plot twist?