Hmm … Most anything, sometimes it seems, makes me “nervous” … though I tend to use the word “anxious” instead. Same thing tho’.

When I was 10 I began having this nervous / anxious feeling every day before school. It usually subsided by the time I got on campus, but it was my daily companion all the same.

Now 40+ years later, I still experience the same feelings, often times. The two big differences are:

1/ I’ve come to realize it’s my less contemplative, Lizard Brain that is activating that sensation, as fears and tasks and struggles (real or imagined) start bubbling in my mind …

2/ It’s at that line in the ground I must use equality primitive and effective strategies to keep my wits and control of events, of my own circumstance.

It’s still a struggle, but I’ve gotten better.

Onward.