Worry is an attempt to control the future

Worry is an extreme reaction to an unstable environment. You cannot control everything but because [[ our minds are problem solvers ]], you go into overdrive attempting to control future outcomes. You put plans in place for things that might not happen. In reality, we cannot control the future, so worry becomes a fraying of a knot.

Worry, at its core, is the repetitious experience of a mind attempting to generate a feeling of security about the future, failing, then trying again and again and again – as if the very effort of worrying might somehow help forestall disaster. Four-Thousand-Weeks-by-Oliver-Burkeman-2021