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Suffering Twice Over Events That May Never Come
The post addresses the habit of suffering over future events that have not yet occurred. The author writes that people imagine conversations, anticipate failures, and worry about disasters that may never materialize, experiencing their emotional weight as if they were already real. When the feared event never arrives, the person has already suffered for nothing; if it does arrive, the person has suffered twice, once in anticipation and once in reality. The reflection connects this pattern to anxiety and the need for trust in God.
Key moments
- We suffer today because of something that might happen tomorrow, experiencing the emotional consequences of imagined events as though they were already real.
- Often the thing we feared never happens, yet we have already suffered for the thing that never happened.
- If the feared event does happen, we have suffered twice, once in anticipation and once in reality.
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