The Broken Worry Program

Metaphorical Narrative

There’s an old machine in the corner of your mind.
Its screen blinks with one line of code: “As long as you worry, there will be peace.”

So you feed it thoughts, endless loops of “what if.”
It hums like it’s doing something important, but the output is always the same—
a shaky illusion of safety.

You glance closer and realize it’s a trick.
The program isn’t building peace, it’s draining it.
The hum is just the noise of fear in disguise.

So you take the match, strike it once,
and the worry program flickers out in flames.
Silence. Stillness. Real peace finally breathes.

Core Insight

Worry disguises itself as protector: If I keep scanning threats, nothing bad will happen.
But this is a broken program.

Worry does not create peace. It only simulates control.
Peace is not earned by tension—it exists when the program stops running.

Burn the loop. Choose silence over simulation.

Saturday Experiment

1. Catch the next worry cycle as it starts running.
2. Say out loud: “This is the broken program. Burn.”
3. Pause. Breathe. Let the silence prove peace is already here.

Sunday Reflection

• What kinds of “peace” has worry falsely promised them?
• How did it feel to burn the program instead of feeding it?
• What emerges when silence is allowed to replace worry?