I've been thinking about curating emotions again. Sure it's well worn territory for me, but just been on my mind this week - this idea that we don't really have a moral obligation to live in stress and worry. I mean, to some extent we usually don't have a much of a choice - and we definitely don't want to start a snowball of self-recrimination for feeling worried. But more so than many people I seem to have an ability to shift my mood-focus a bit, at least temporarily, and most often it doesn't seem like worrying about something is getting me to be more proactive about trying to materially improve the situation. But sometimes I feel guilty about that - like I'm obliged to feel worried. That I'd just be a grinning idiot if I focused on all the OK and good and seemingly stable things, rather than thinking how things may go from middling to worse. And/Or that I'll just become to blasé about the world, but I don't think that's too likely an outcome.
