If you’re depressed, you’re living in the past. If you’re anxious, you’re living in the future.
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Lao Tzu said this in 525 BC when anxiety didn’t yet define an entire age of human existence. But as temperatures boil over actually and politically, what has us in its thrall isn’t anxiety, but high anxiety. How else to describe Umair Haque’s mordant prediction that
If you’re depressed, you’re living in the past. If you’re anxious, you’re living in the future.
If you’re depressed, you’re living in the…
If you’re depressed, you’re living in the past. If you’re anxious, you’re living in the future.
Lao Tzu said this in 525 BC when anxiety didn’t yet define an entire age of human existence. But as temperatures boil over actually and politically, what has us in its thrall isn’t anxiety, but high anxiety. How else to describe Umair Haque’s mordant prediction that