Somebody once asked me "And what's so bad about feeling pain?" To which, stumped, all I could answer was "Um..it hurts?". So to that, what's so bad about anxiety? It's unpleasant. But what's so bad about that? It's uncomfortable. Probing one last time, is it so bad to be uncomfortable? I realized then that there's nothing inherently bad or wrong with feeling uncomfortable, hence it's okay to be uncomfortable. From that point on I've been saying to myself paradoxically... It's ok to not be ok. Things are always going to be okay because even when they're not that's still okay.
Somebody once asked me "And what's so bad about feeling pain?" To which, stumped, all I could answer was "Um..it hurts?". So to that, what's so bad about anxiety? It's unpleasant. But what's so bad about that? It's uncomfortable. Probing one last time, is it so bad to be uncomfortable? I realized then that there's nothing inherently bad or wrong with feeling uncomfortable, hence it's okay to be uncomfortable. From that point on I've been saying to myself paradoxically... It's ok to not be ok. Things are always going to be okay because even when they're not that's still okay.
This is exactly it! Beautifully put :)