Twenty years worrying about nothing

At sixty-five she still has sleepless nights. In her forties she worried her child would get hurt; in her fifties that her husband would be laid off; in her sixties about hospital bills. Most of it never happened. What did happen looked nothing like the worry. One of the Cornell elders' most common regrets was exactly this: the time wasted worrying about things that never happened. Worry isn't preparation for the future. It's a tax on today.