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Worst Case Scenarios

Prompt: Your creative imagination can be good for writing novels, poems, short stories but can be your worst enemy when it invents worse case scenarios. Do you agree?

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When worse case scenarios happen in my writing, I celebrate them. Coming up with worse case scenarios and then making the main character get out of them creates suspense which keeps the reader reading. This also helps to deepen the conflict.

Yet, when the same thing happens in real life, that is when I imagine the worst to happen, it is not a comfortable feeling; however, it is a useful one. Without falling into despair or panic, if I can imagine how I would act in such a situation, and my thinking along those lines helps me to handle that situation or a similar one better, should such a thing come to pass. From this point of view, creative imagination can be an ally instead of an enemy.

What hurts anyone is fearing the future and suffering from anxiety over it. Even under worst circumstances, it is the better option to design a solution beforehand or to find a way to survive with the least amount of damage to oneself.