Originally Posted by
Patcha 
I know that a lot of my suffering comes from worry about the future. I think it's fine for monks to say don't worry about it, but they aren't potentially going to live under a bridge in a cardboard box if their retirement investments tank, or if they don't have any retirement savings at all!
On the other hand we're pretty lucky living in the first world, and IMO luckier in Oz compared with other parts of the world.
We can definitely do stuff now to mitigate against possible disaster later - which to me is really the only real use that comes from worrying
