PROMPT: Nervous

Daily writing prompt
What makes you nervous?

All sorts of stuff — e.g. gabby strangers approaching me unexpectedly when I’m in a low mental energy state. But when I observe the sensation of that nervousness, without rumination or feeding of the feeling, it fades rapidly. As Twain [allegedly, but possibly never] said, “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

PROMPT: Nervous

What makes you nervous?

A combination of neurotransmitters and hormones. An overactive / unchecked limbic system. Stuff like that. Basic physiology.