Addiction And Sunk Cost Fallacy

So much of anxiety and ‘paralysis’ that I have,
Is down to running through these mental thinking constructs,

At some point I get ‘sick’ of it,
And snap out of it;

It’s daily practising this habit, this trick,
Which helps me to move forwards;

It’s easier said than done,
And in some moods it can be extremely difficult—
Because of ‘sunk cost fallacy’,
What an addiction!

Actually, this reminds me of a great point which Eckhart Tolle made—
‘Mindfulness’ is a terrible name for it,
Because it suggests that your brain is full of thoughts,
Rather than the opposite!¹

I actually hate the word for other reasons—
Its trendiness and bandied-about-ness,
So I’m going to think of another word—
Consciousness,
Holy shit.

¹ In a blunder perhaps as shocking and hilarious as that which initially crippled the Hubble Space Telescope before launch, it’s a simple mistranslation!! 🤦‍♂️

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