It’s going to be okay / The thing I’m most afraid of

I. It’s going to be okay I think when I was young, I subsconsciously got the idea that when “things will be okay” it means that you won’t get sad, scared, angry, hurt, etc. There was this underlying belief that “okay” meant “the absence of badness.” I imagine I’m not the only person who had that kind of idea, or maybe even that goal. The idea that making sure you’re okay meant that bad things don’t happen or you don’t have to feel bad things. As I get older, I keep trying to remind myself that “It’s going to be okay” means that you WILL get sad, scared, angry, hurt, etc. sometimes but that it will be okay that that is occuring. It’s such an obvious semantic difference, but sometimes I need to consciously remind myself of obvious things. Plenty of fiction has been centered around the idea of showing you exactly how being sad, scared, angry, and hurt is natural and okay and you will get through it. If anything, that is practically the point of fiction in the first place. But despite all…