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Who has the time to worry! || AP Neem Candies
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4 years ago
Worry
Action
Fantasy
Imagination
Anxiety
Escapism
Entertainment
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that if one immerses oneself in the right action, there is no space or time to worry. He states that people are surely stealing time away from work to indulge in worries, anxieties, and fantasies of all kinds. Young people, he notes, often fantasize. Some fantasize about beautiful, pretty, and exciting things, while others fantasize about scary demons. Fundamentally, he argues, it is much the same thing, as one is using the faculty of imagination to gratify oneself in some way. He draws an analogy with movies, comparing these two types of fantasies to romantic comedies and horror flicks. He suggests that while one is playing on one screen and the other on an adjacent one, the audience is much the same. The objective is entertainment, to move into a virtual, unreal world and titillate oneself. Whether it's a man and a woman doing things to each other's bodies on one screen or a demon doing things to somebody's body on another, he describes it as a "bloody bodily business." In either case, the viewer is glued to the screen to forget the real thing, the fact of their life. This imagination, whether it's so-called positive or negative, hope or worry, serves the purpose of taking you away from the fact of your life. When you are busy imagining that something very scary might happen in the future, you are indirectly asserting that you are alright in the present. However, the speaker contends that you are not alright. The demon is not in the future; it is already here, within you, having gripped your heart. Instead of looking at this reality, you avoid it by manufacturing fantasies. What is needed is action and work. If the future threat is real, then that is all the more incentive to immerse yourself in the right action right now. If the threat is not real, then you should stop fantasizing and find some work.