anxiety is like when your ethernet cable keeps unplugging itself but you’re already in the middle of a raid and your cat is sitting on the router blinking morse code at you. one time i tried to install a new kernel and my laptop started screaming at me in really cute little beeeps. i swear it was laughing. i threw a blanket over it and whispered "it's okay little guy you're just scared of the upgrade" and then i cried for twenty minutes. but the kernel compiled eventually.