I lost a vast amount of weight in 2011 and I can look back with pride my confidents has grown and I can now be myself a little more. .. New year. new slate. I feel as if the old me has vanished

Earlier bedtimes, better diet, confident me? oh I think so!

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I give the string a tug and the blinds close tight, shutting out the world, enclosing me in my solitary womb where tv is watched and food eaten and too few voices heard. The carpets starting to wear down in the spots my feet know well, sofa to kitchen to toilet to bed. Two years I've been here, living alone, trapped in my routine of sleep and eat and work and home. The neighbours don't know my name, seldom friends come to visit. This is my little world, a place in which my busy mind shouts its anxious...

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i agree that all human beings must feel anxious occasionally.
our personalities & backgrounds differ,
so we seem to differ on which occasions cause anxiety.

isn't the root of all anxiety: a fear of the unknown, or
fear of rejection, or of failure??
i mean, if we never cared about results, we'd never be anxious, right??

the future & my...