We spend a lot of our time worrying about the future, anticipating what’s going to happen and pre-reacting to imaginary scenarios. The problem is that when we do this we feel all of the stress, anxiety and dread. We feel all of this in advance, because of something that hasn’t even happened yet.
Think about this for a minute, we suffer because of things that do not exist. The future hasn’t happened yet, it literally doesn’t exist.
What’s the point of feeling all of these negative emotions and their tangible effects on our bodies, for something that is just a phantom?