Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.
You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.
Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.