The Weight That Isn't There: Anxiety and Finding the Courage to Be

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What better definition could you ask for the word ANXIETY? The weight that isn't there. The weight of wasted potential, of what might have been, of what's stalking us around life's next corner, of pending deadlines, the unmet expectations of others... The weight that isn't there makes everything light by comparison. The little joys in life stay small or vanish altogether in its shadow. The weight that isn't there outweighs them all.

And one anxiety can flatten a whole world. Like a blackhole in space, it draws all light into itself. It makes the darkness darker, the blackness blacker, so black it can't be seen, but can be detected only by its gravitational pull on everything around it, by the gradual disappearance, one by one, of the shining stars and planets it consumes.

But Michael also showed me, that night, anxiety's antidote -- the courage to be...