How do you all cope with the fear of the future? I have a constant stone sitting in my stomach all the time. Is it a mid life inevitability to be tolerated? HOW do you tolerate it?
I am at the point in life where I have ageing parents, children who are youngish and a job in a very volatile sector. I don’t feel secure in any of these areas: I worry about losing my parents or their decline; I look at my children and worry about their future. Job, no need to explain! I have quite intrusive, vivid, thoughts about terrible scenarios linked to all these things. It feels like a train coming towards me whatever I do and I’m just waiting for all of these things to hit, for the sword to fall.
My question is : how do you tolerate this on the day to day? The human condition is cruel! Speaking of which, the fact that I’m relatively privileged adds to my guilt and my frustration with myself. I want to shake myself out of it and think better thoughts