# Worry Cancer

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-11-13

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I observe something and I feel the fear rise up within me.

It grabs hold of my thought patterns, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, like a wave crashing then receding on the beach.

But it’s there and it won’t go away.

Like the wave.

Even if I don’t look at it, I feel it. It’s in my subconscious. The energy, the noise.

It’s worry.

Worry about what might happen. Worry about what I don’t know.

For a moment, the worry is helpful. It’s a blessing. It raises my awareness to a potential threat.

But only for a moment.

How long before I either do something or let the worry go completely?

Lingering worry, without action, is like a cancer that metastasizes.

Eventually, it causes immobility.

And then the fears are realized.

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