That is a thing I use to tell my kids. don't borrow trouble. When ever. they were worried about something, that had not happen yet. Meaning don't worry about something that hasn't happened. It is a waste of time, also it may not even happen. If you worry about it, and it doesn't happen, look at all the time you have wasted. Same thing with "if only's". Now there is a waste of time. Yet we have all spent our time there. If only, I had done this or that. If only I had said this or that. The trouble with that is...what is done is done. Can't change it. So live with it/From A Simple Mind. More here.

Question: Are you a worry wart? Of someone who frets over mistakes made in life? In other words, to use Simple Mind's phraseology, do you habitually "borrow trouble"?

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