I am capable of handling anything that comes my way.

Handling is not the same as solving, and it is a much lower and more reachable bar. Plenty of things that came your way were never solved. They were met, absorbed, lived alongside, and eventually filed.

The trouble with hypothetical trouble is that it arrives stripped of everything real trouble brings with it — the phone numbers, the friend who turns up, the odd clarity that appears when something is actually happening.

You are never as unequipped as you feel while imagining.

Imagination sends the event without the kit.