Why Do We Worry?
We worry because we are able through a power called self-consciousness to place ourselves through our minds for the time being. Either—back somewhere in the past without carrying our physical bodies with us; for if we could take our bodies with us, we would be in the present again, and then worry is impossible; or, we use our imagination and project the future entirely apart from our bodies, for we cannot project our bodies into the future, and if we could we would again be in the present. We worry over going to have an operation performed which may or not be dangerous, but quite necessary. We may still think we worry when the operation begins, but as soon as that occurs the time becomes the present, and though we may fear, we cannot worry in the present.
Longitudinal Section through Shield & Tunnel
Jacobs & Davies Inc. 30 Church St. N.Y. Oct. 15. 1910.