I have been expecting my life to crash down around me for many years, perhaps decades, and while it so far hasn't yet, I've never felt more precarious.

Submitted by flabberghaster in just_post (edited )

All through school every year I thought I was going to flunk out. Then I got As ans Bs.

Then since I've been working, I've thought I'm going to get a low performance review and fired, but I always get good reviews.

But I work in tech and I feel like the economic situation has been a house of cards for years, and it's never been more precarious. But it keeps not collapsing.

I've been expecting tech in particular to collapse for forever and I still think it's immanent but so far so good I guess.

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Caribou wrote

as an also permanently anxious person ive been trying to live by the if you worry and it doesnt happen youve suffered once. if you worry and it does happen, youve suffered twice, and if you dont worry and it doesnt happen, you didnt suffer at all, kinda thinking.
ofc you cant just never worry or plan ahead, but sometimes you just gotta ask yourself, what does all this thinking actually accomplish? does it get me any closer to any solutions or am i just needlessly torturing myself?
obviously easier said than done but it has still helped me to keep that in the back of my mind.

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skookin wrote

sometimes i think of worrying as like a magical thinking move by my subconscious. as if by devoting soo much time and energy and suffering to a thing out of my control, i will surely gain some level of influence over the outcome.

but guess what! it doesnt fucking work like that!

i might as well pray for all the good it would do me. the universe doesnt give a shit about the amount of self flagellation i do.

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