If You’re Not Worried, You’re Dead

To be alive is to solve problems — both real and imagined

Timothy Kreider
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readFeb 13, 2020

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A silhouette of a man sitting on his bed with his hand against his forehead, seemingly upset, light seeping from the blinds.
Photo: Photographer is my life./Getty Images

LLately one of my favorite leisure activities is to lie awake for several hours worrying about everything that is wrong with my life, which, currently, is almost everything. I like to set aside some time each day for this pastime — from, say, midnight ’til two or three in the morning. I reminisce about things…

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Timothy Kreider
Human Parts

Tim Kreider is the author of two essay collections, and a frequent contributor to Medium and The New York Times. He lives in NYC and the Chesapeake Bay area.