"Don't worry about it."
How many times have you heard those words, or something similar? (Maybe what you heard was the distinctive New York variant: "Fuggedaboudit!")
Those four words — "Don't worry about it" — are, in combination with each other, possibly the most useless words in the English language.
They're useless not because banishing worry isn't a good idea. Generally, it is. Most of us worry far too much. But "Don't worry about it" is advice routinely ignored and impossible to obey. Or so it would seem.
Consider some of the scenarios people most often worry about: the bad things that can happen in life. The experiences are fearsome enough, but the fact we most often forget is how rare they are.
Chief among them, in this obsessively anxious era, is the fear of Jihadi terrorist attacks. The appalling images of the collapsing World Trade Center towers are burned into our national consciousness — more than 14 years later, and after no similar catastrophe has ever...
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