I have a class on anxiety

Not how to cope with it

Or to cure it

Since we can’t

All we can do is

just try to understand it

Because apparently

according to my professor

to be human

is to be anxious

I’ve never heard a more true statement

But then he rearranged the words

You aren’t human

if you aren’t anxious

So we need anxiety?

Something that has tormented me

for most of my life

is a necessity?

Thirty minutes later

he said a quote that read,

Anxiety means suffering

Depression means giving up

no possibility, hopelessness

While my professor thinks

that has a narrow definition

of ‘suffering,’

it makes sense to me

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(The quote I mention is by Charles Darwin. I actually do have a class called the Paychology of Anxiety, hence the title. It’s interesting that’s for sure.)