Anxiety Sensors

Have you heard of Murphy’s Law?

If something can possibly go wrong, it will surely go wrong.

I always think of this law whenever there’s something important going on in my life, and I inevitably start to worry that something is going to screw everything up.

Like right now, I’m all set to go back to Mumbai in 2 days, and today I started hearing rumors that flights from my hometown are going to get canceled because of the second wave of corona cases. I’ve been here for almost 2 months and nothing happened, how can I be so unlucky at just the wrong time?

But this feeling is not unfamiliar. Actually, this is not my only worry about going back to Mumbai. I’m worried about the condition my flat will be in. I worried that the society people might make me get a medical certificate before entering, I’m worried about going back to the office. It seems that any important event is always preceded by a flood of worries.

I don’t think murphy law is true, I think it’s just us getting too anxious. The anxiety sensors in our brains get hyperactive, picking up each and every small thing that might go wrong, cooking up multiple worst case scenarios. Most of which never come true. But the sensors don’t care, they just be sensing like crazy.