The Difference Between A Wish And A Worry

The difference between a wish and a worry is the difference between conscious living and not. Whereas worries arrive unbidden on an endless conveyor belt, we have to want to wish. ‘I want to stop hunching my shoulders.’ Or, ‘I want to pay attention to this moment.’ Here, language becomes problematic because we may not “want” to do this in the same way we want to drink a Dark n’ Stormy or take a nap, for instance. Our…