I texted this to a friend who is having issues with one of her children trying to keep her alive

 Survival is always moment by moment

I wouldn't be alive now at age 78 if I couldn't stay in the moment

There are too many variables otherwise to deal with that we have no real

idea of until they happen.

So, in this sense most worry is counterproductive

Too many variables to make sense of until they actually happen

And now I'm adding to this:

Unless we are in the moment most of the time we might not survive even to age 30 years old otherwise.

Life is mostly about: "There are no problems ONLY opportunities".

This is what saved me in 1994 when I was going through a really awful divorce and custody battle which I wasn't sure I could survive at the time.

When I took to heart "There are no problems only opportunities" I could help my children because all problems were not seen as problems but only opportunities in life.

Thinking in this way rather than worrying all the time saved my life and my children's lives too at the time.

This taught me a lot about life and how to survive almost anything in life