Threadbare maxims, stale, musty outdated commonplaces of unavailing consolation and impotent encouragement say to us, ‘Do not be anxious.’ We attempt to stiffen our nerves and muscular tissues in buy to bear the blow or some of us, a lot more basely still, get into a practice of feather-headed levity, producing no forecasts, nor viewing even what is plainest right before our eyes.