The Worst

"What's the worst that could happen?"

A little game to play. I'm sure I picked it up from somewhere else- like a lot of the shit I say, it's most likely not original at all. I play it with my mom, I play it when I'm alone in my house on a Scary Sunday Morning (Sunday morning, coming down), I write it compulsively in my journal.

It works like this: so you're worried about something, you're scared or anxious, or whateverthefuck. So you say, out loud (and this is critical), "what's the worst that could happen?" And you have to be really honest about it, what is realistically the worst possible outcome. The bitch of it is, it's rarely that bad. Or if it is, i's often resolved by part II of the game: "and then what?". There's almost always something, and then you keep asking "and then what?", until you feel better. Until you grounded your neurotic ass in reality just a little bit.

So what's the worst that could happen ? -It all falls apart. "And then what?" -And then I put together the pieces again. "And then what?" -And then I carry on doing whatever it was I was doing before, or do something totally different, and it might not be the same, I might not be the same as before, but I've done this a hundred times.

So what's the worst that could happen? Are you going to die ? No? Then buck the fuck up buddy, we got things to do.