Whether a dinner party or my entire future, in each case, I was anticipating everything that could go wrong, and that made me think of more things that could go wrong, until I got stuck in a loop of worry, anxiety, and indecisiveness. It’s uncomfortable to feel the weight of the future pushing down on you, to be caught in the brief moment between the mistakes you made in the past and the mistakes you’re about to make in the future. Perhaps you understand the feeling.
