Paranoia

The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. Jk it's my bathroom window.

I guess I'm not having a great week.

Everything felt fine until the last twenty-four hours. Then I started to perceive things going against me. Just a couple of hints in how people talk to me, and some regrets about not presenting myself well once or twice.

Every few years I go through these minor bouts of paranoia. Sometimes it turns out to be justified but mostly it is just paranoia. I hate it. It's one of the worst feelings, and it can be hard to shake off. Usually I have to go a few days up to a few weeks without anything bad happening for the feeling to go away. Until then I'll be looking over my shoulder.

It doesn't help that the demons of war and revolution are loose in the world. I try not to worry about things that are beyond my control too much, but the arc of war now extends from Ukraine in the north around in an ironic smile down through Israel, the Red Sea and Yemen over to Pakistan and India. Syria and Iraq remain unstable. I won't bother detailing the situation in Africa. If you were paying attention, you could see all of this coming¹.

Source: bbc.com

I need to stop doomscrolling.

Footnotes

1 I still think I'm on track with my prediction. A professional military analyst that I follow has suggested November of 2028 as a likely target date for an assault on Taiwan.