How many times do our fears get disappointed when we assume the worst?
Assuming the worst seems to be connected to our
culture of stress. Sometimes the worst happens, but that's not the rule. We assume that things have gone, or will go, horribly wrong so easily that we become easily manipulated by a whole gamut of people from a salesman to a powerful politician. Besides that, we shorten our own lives and ruin our health by living under the stress of these self-generated fears.
Beware of giving an opening to those who would take advantage of you, including your enemy(ies). Beware of the self destruction that you are taking upon yourself.
“Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?”
"What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?
All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest."
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
