The mind is a master of fiction. It can spin entire plots about disasters that never happen, rehearsing griefs and losses long before they arrive. But most of these imagined troubles never step onto the stage. The cost is real, though: worry taxes today for a future that may never come due. This is your reminder not to suffer twice—once in imagination and once in reality.
How much of your energy is spent bracing for things that never arrive? What stories do you tell yourself about the worst that could happen—and how often do they turn out to be true? Notice how worry pulls you out of the present, convincing you to live inside a future that doesn’t exist. What would change if you trusted yourself to meet challenges only when they actually appear?