Most negative thoughts shouldn’t be treated seriously, let alone acted upon. We should be less reactive towards their presence. It’s like spending all week worrying about going to a doctor’s appointment. We’re only actually with the doctor for ten minutes, but we worry about it all week! And then he tells us everything looks okay and to come back in six months. Do you see how much unnecessary worrying we did? It seems silly in retrospect. Well, if you consider it, you’ll probably realize that almost everything is like this mentally when it comes to things that bother us. As Mark Twain joked,
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