RoseEve
24-05-14, 01:18
What if that mole is just a mole? What if that lymph node is normal? But if that lump is harmless? What if that stomachache is just a stomachache? A headache just a headache and not a brain tumor? What if my tingling is not from MS? What if my muscle twitching is not ALS? What if we live? But never really live? Always worrying about the future that we forget our present. Have we lived? This thought scares me more than cancer, more than ALS more than anything. Remembering this has helped me significantly in overcoming health anxiety. Here's a quote from the Dalai Lama "Man is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he's never going to die, and then dies have never really lived."