If you often are nearly overcome by anxiety about 
The future of your nation and your own family
and maybe even you, yourself as I frequently am,
you might seek help with that, as I did,

And perhaps you will be reminded that our planet
is just a speck within a speck (and on and on) and
that our human species is in its infancy so far as
its evolution goes, and that in another billion years

It is likely to have evolved the capacity to solve the
myriad problems that seem insurmountable now,
the threats that seem to promise disaster or at
least very bad times for us and our children.

This thinking will put greater distance from the
matters of immediate concern, making one
realize how trivial these problems are when
viewed in this larger context,

I’ve thought long and hard on this and there
seems no doubt that if I could distance myself
from the present in this way I’d be more peaceful.
Good luck with that.