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On Being Anxious

Jeremiah Luke Barnett
3 min readDec 20, 2019

I spend an immense amount of time in my head.

I spend an immense amount of time in the future pondering all possibilities and consequences as a product of decisions I make today as well as circumstances that may arise.

I arrive at ideas of how things will be down the road, grasp their significance and promptly internalize any emotion I will be feeling in that future realm.

While this can be a powerful motivator for making or not making certain decisions, if I am not careful I wind up confusing how I might feel in the future for how I actually feel right now not to mention the fact I forget to take into account how I have felt in the past.

What a mistake to make.

The Balancing Act — My Failure

If I were to make sweeping statements, one of them might be that any extreme or fundamentally unbalanced approach to life is wrong in some way.

By existing, I have entered into an interesting balancing act between my past, present, and future.

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