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Suffering imagined troubles

The Ordinary Man
5 min readJan 7, 2025

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A philosopher said that most of the troubles we suffer in life are imagined, and in my case, that’s definitely true. Even today I was getting paranoid about things that probably weren’t going to happen, they were making me frustrated and wasting my time as I couldn’t concentrate.

Sometimes I walk around mad for no reason. I’m thinking about something bad that I’ve imagined, it didn’t even happen but it’s still ruining my day. On the other side of this, it doesn’t come from nowhere, it comes from experience.

When I think about the problems I imagine a lot of them come from real-life experiences. It’s not like I’ve seen them in a movie, I don’t even watch movies.

I’ve said before, I’ve probably got a lot of trauma due to my life experiences and it comes from spiteful people doing evil things. People who are trying to tear me down due to envy and their own insecurity. I stand strong but you still bear the weight.

To be honest, I don’t go into many situations thinking the worst. If anything I am too casual. I do catastrophise before the event, but when I’m there I don’t think about it at all. When I’m in the situation it doesn’t phase me most of the time.

I don’t know why this happens, I think it could be because I have enough life experience to know everything is going to be ok in most cases. I’m…

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