I was thinking about a long drive we planned to go on the other day. My mind briefly drifted to the traffic situation.
Oof – what if the traffic gets really bad in the time it takes us to get out of the house?
I began visualizing the frustration of a long drive.
Now I began feeling flustered.
And annoyed at myself for not getting out earlier.
Until I realized it was all in my head.
The only thing I could do is get ready quick and get out of the house. Every other course of action was pointless in that situation.
I marveled at how our thoughts can take us down unhelpful rabbit holes if we let them and make us worry needlessly about things outside our control.
Our thoughts are powerful. Channel them, we must.
PS: The traffic turned out to be fine by the way. A few delays aside, it wasn’t anywhere close to the worst case scenarios I nearly began worrying about.
