Do not think too much into it.
Sometimes the event itself is small.
Someone did not reply.
Someone looked in a strange way.
Someone said something briefly.
Something did not go according to plan.
The day unfolded differently than one wanted.
And here the mind walks onto the stage wearing the work apron of an architect of catastrophes.
It quickly builds extra floors.
Installs the lights.
Hangs the curtains.
Moves in fears, resentments, suspicions, and a couple of old wounds with permanent residence papers.
Within five minutes a person no longer has a situation, but an entire inner series.
Did not reply — it means they are offended.
Looked strangely — it means they judge me.
Spoke briefly — it means everything is bad.
Kept silent — it means they are hiding something.
It did not work out — it means life is personally against me again, in prior conspiracy with the weather and the accounting department of the universe.
But often the problem does not appear in the event.
It appears in what a person added to it.
There was one fact.
And suffering for three seasons with a sequel.
So sometimes the wisest practice is to stop and ask yourself:
“What do I know for certain?”
Not what seems to me.
Not what I fear.
Not what I have already drawn in my head with dramatic music.
But what truly is.
Because reality is usually simpler than our anxiety.
Do not think too much into it.
That is how you create problems that were never there to begin with...
