Anxiety can be good for you

Don't always believe what you read. For example, I read that anxiety and distress are related terms. That would be the case if anxiety was not also related to excitation. In my understanding of semiotics, admittedly superficial, I relate anxiety and excitation to the initiation of thought.  If a sign does not excite you, you may be comatose, blinking, passive and otherwise part of a neutral mass that might end up merely being ballast on a listing ship called the world. But I digress. We run on excitement. That's how we see signs!  Then we let excitement bump up against reality, brute fact, opposition, resistance. Out of that confluence comes a habit or a rule or a resolution. It is a triadic process. Without some initial anxiety it would never happen at all.
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