The Importance of Anticipation in Fear

The word worry derives from the word strangle. The major ingredient in fear is that anticipation of fear. We have this idea of a future with something bad that's going to happen and we are tensing against it. Some of the unpleasant things we anticipate do happen. A whole lot of them don't. But the point is that if we had been doing it we would have sent that whole time anticipating the pain and suffering from that.