Anxiety Is Excitement in Disguise

At five am on a recent morning, I woke to find Cindy awake next to me. “What’s going on, babe?” I asked.

“I feel so anxious,” she told me, “there are so many things I have to do.”

This got me thinking about anxiety, a topic I frequently consider. Maybe what was trying to happen was getting up at five am and enjoying doing all those things that the thoughts seemed to be…