Building a Non-Anxious Life

by John Delony

This was in the summer of 2020, and people were calling in to the show about how anxious, worried, and burdened they were. It seemed everyone was anxious.

The great irony of my pandemic experience: my anxiety was virtually non-existent when everyone else was freaking out. It was only when people decided to go back to normal that everything went to shit.

Millions and millions of people were told they weren’t essential.

I mean. To the running of the world? No. They weren't. Most people aren't.

My body was paralyzed by the idea that some nameless, faceless people could make crooked deals in the back room of some banking institution and ruin families and businesses and the country. Or that short-minded incentives, spread across multiple sectors of an industry, could cave in on themselves and cost people everything.

And absolutely nothing has changed to prevent that from happening again.