Upset For No Reason

image by AI; my own prompt — ‘me’ imagining worst-case scenarios Every day, something happens that gets me anxious or upset. Technology failures, news about outrageous events, abuses and other horrors, meanness and unfairness by people I know or observe. Small worrisome physical or mental health issues. Dismay and shame at my own behaviours. Dread about something terrible that someone who I don’t even know says they will do tomorrow. Re-thinking something I or someone else did yesterday, or should have done, or shouldn’t have done. Anxiety about what might happen today, or next month, or ten years from now. Why do I do this, and get upset about this? I ‘know’ that there’s no such thing as free will or agency. I ‘know’ that all there is is what is seemingly happening, that it’s all just appearances. That there’s nothing that ‘I’ or anyone else can do about it. I know indeed that there is not even any ‘real’ space or time in which this upsetting things is apparently happening. Space and…