Think About It

Have you ever wondered why we worry about things that haven’t happened yet? I would like to be able to pose that question to all of y’all, but the plain simple truth is that I may be king of this issue. As I think about the presence of pre-event anxiety and worry, I can come up with a lot of excuses for it, but probably the most believable is that if I fret about it now, before it happens, I might be able to head off some later catastrophe. Now, while this sound noble, the problem with this type of thinking is that it never ends. As soon as I come up with a potential solution to one possible problem, I think of another one and we are off to the mental races again. It never ends! Again, while this might sound like an effective way to address life and challenges it has the potential to rob the enjoyment of living life. There are a couple of truths that we must confront: first, we must accept that we can’t anticipate every potential problem; but maybe the most sobering is that the