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You Do Not Know Enough To Worry
This is inspired by one of my favorite quotes of all time, by Terence McKenna:
“Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. Who do you think you are that you should worry, for crying out loud? It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is in fact a form of hubris.”
Worry is hubris.
It assumes you know what will happen and that you have a right to worry about what will come.
It means you know the outcome of a situation that is yet to happen, every step to get to that situation, and that that situation will turn out badly for you.
What kind of foresight is that? How arrogant!
If you were honest you would see that you have no idea what will happen in 2 minutes from now, much less in a day, week, month or year.
Even if you did know what would happen in general, you are not powerful enough to make sure that that is the outcome that will happen, for you would have to control everything.
You cannot force any outcome to happen, and, as such, cannot control the future without a shadow of a doubt.
In this moment that means this:
You do not know enough to worry.
