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How Does Your Approach to The Unknown Matter?
Your choice of approach always impacts your outcome.
In part because I blanked and forgot to take my meds for the first time in ages yesterday; partially because the weather is grey and it’s cold; in part because of a contentious email chain; partially due to anxiety over the surreal insanity of this election year, I am feeling lost, frustrated, and depressed.
The reason is simple. The unknown. Everything above represents an unknown. Forgetting my meds is impacting me physically, the grey cold feels oppressive on my psyche, the email chain has me angry and discontent, and the election bullshit has me feeling pissed off, scared, and deeply disappointed in a whole swath of the American people.
Yet the outcome of all the above is utterly unknown.
Because this is causing me to feel negative, it would be all too easy to let that spiral out of control. Facing all these unknowns, my immediate visceral reactions are negative. Hence, my approach to the rest of my day, let alone beyond that, could also be negative.
For example, I could just say fuck it, none of this matters. It’s all going to hell in a handbasket, there’s not a damned thing I can do about or for the majority of it. Why bother writing for a world on the brink of its own…
