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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou should feel great today and here's why:
Either we will win big, win barely, or barely lose.
If we end up winning (which, btw, we will) then why would you choose to spend this day feeling crappy?
Your feelings today most certainly will *not* impact the outcome.
If we end up losing (lol, no way), then I assure you, you *will* feel severe pain soon enough--why would you choose to prolong it prematurely??
It's the same way I learned long ago to approach the impending loss of a beloved pet: why spend even one minute mourning them while they still live? It *never, ever* diminishes the eventual pain we suffer when the time inevitably comes, so why add to the burden? (And, I just lost my beloved dog one week ago, so the pain is quite raw atm.) But in decades past, I would bring myself to tears thinking about how awful it will be when my pet passes, and yet it did not soften the blow by any amount, this "pre-mourning" that I would engage in. So it's kind of the same principle.
Today is that one brief window of time where you can CHOOSE to feel good and happy today. If the bottom falls out, I promise you can feel as lousy as you want tomorrow! But for today? Choose happiness. Because, I mean, worst case, it may be the last time in awhile that you can, right? (But no, it won't, because we are *actually* going to win this thing.)
Anyway, that's my pep talk for the day.
displacedvermoter
(4,491 posts)intrepidity
(8,582 posts)But I am genuinely feeling good and optimistic today.
displacedvermoter
(4,491 posts)intrepidity
(8,582 posts)So yeah, multiple reasons to celebrate.
Easterncedar
(6,263 posts)I appreciate the pep talk.
intrepidity
(8,582 posts)I probably didn't articulate it very well, but I'm glad you saw the message.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,988 posts)It doesnt work that way.
I wont sleep right until I know were safe.
cachukis
(3,932 posts)Frank Zappa.
Emile
(42,281 posts)Easterncedar
(6,263 posts)Your advice is very much along the lines of a conversation I had twice yesterday. We are all so anxious!
Anxiety is useful only if it drives you to take action to change the outcome. When action isnt possible, you should let it go. It is hard to will anxiety away, but its not impossible. Its the essence of meditative practice.
I am trying! I have been really struggling with it now for months. But now the day is here. So -
I dont remember the name of this Graham Greene novel, and I may not get the details exactly right, but in it a South American country is gripped with suspense and excitement over a huge national lottery. The local doctor declares he is throwing a big party to celebrate his winning the grand prize, to be held the night before the drawing. When questioned, he says that as far as he knows right now he is the winner, so he will celebrate while he can.
intrepidity
(8,582 posts)It only works when there's no longer any meaningful action you can take.