physician, heal thyself

yesterday i felt compelled to give some important advice to camodidi.

don't waste your time or emotional energy being anxious. that anxiety can occupy your thoughts and make you freak out about every little thing. i don't know how best to do it, but what you need to do is relax into it. we naturally function at pretty high levels, and our anxiety only interferes with that level of function. in other words, don't worry about it; just do it. then it will go better.

it "only" took me six hours to realize that i seriously need to follow that advice myself.