I am often tempted myself to send my anxious mind far ahead in
vague dismay; at the beginning of a week crammed with various
engagements, numerous tasks, constant labour, little businesses,
many of them with their own attendant anxiety, it is easy to say
that there is no time to do anything that one wants to do, and to
feel that the matters themselves will be handled amiss and bungled.
But if one can only keep the mind off, or distract it by work, or
beguile it by a book, a walk, a talk, how easily the thread spins
off the reel, how quietly one comes to harbour on the Saturday
evening, with everything done and finished!
Again, I am personally much disposed to dread the opposition and
the displeasure of colleagues, and to shrink nervously from
anything which involves dealing with a number of people. I ought to
have found out before now how futile such dread is; other people
forget their vexation and even grow ashamed of it, much as one does
oneself; and looking back I can recall no crisis which turned out
either as intricate or as difficult as one expected.
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