It's Constant
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith This quote reminds me of something discussed in a book I'm currently reading (via audiobook, so is that really even reading?). They talk about our growing tendency as a society to catastrophize things. The idea being that we interpret everything as a catastrophe, which stymies our ability to adapt to and eventually overcome it. Every bad thing is interpreted as the worst possible thing, and it sends us into a tailspin of depression and anxiety because it conditions us to see the world as far worse than it actually is. It is impossible to go just about anywhere right now without encountering people who are under a tremendous amount of stress, anxiety, and depression. This year is one for the record books in terms of stressors. Between a global pandemic and a contentious Presidential Election, there is a lot of noise that can make even the most stoic individual want to just crawl under