worry is imagining fear but…

I’ve been writing posts since 2016 which means I have lots of old posts I started and never published. This is one of them from 2016.

Worry is taking what we think will make our kids unsuccessful and then imagining it happening - if nothing can make our kids unsuccessful though… then there is nothing to worry about.

In 2016 I had little kids and now my youngest is a freshman at UW. But, I still love this thought - it’s true not just of kids but of everything. It’s mostly the fear of something programmed into us that can go wrong that contributes to most of our worry. But if those fears are put where they belong - programmed thoughts that aren’t necessarily true - then it gets rid of a lot of our worry.