Playing out all the potential outcomes in your head until you’re so crippled with anxiety you can’t take another step, doesn’t protect you from (nor prepare you for) the problem to come.

Instead, all this worrying fictionalizes the problem into something far worse than it really is. What we think is behind the door is usually scarier than what is actually behind the door. 

And so we’re better off opening the door before we’ve had the chance to make monsters out of the dark inside—and trust that we have the self-resilience to face whatever is on the other side.