No two molecules may occupy the same physical space, just as no mind can hold two thoughts simultaneously. Anxiety can feel like a torrent of a thousand thoughts crashing together at once, but in reality, the mind is consumed by only one thought at a time. This does not make anxiety any less overwhelming. After all, an avalanche is still just a cascade of individual snowflakes.

In each moment, that single thought becomes your entire world, the only thing that truly matters. The most important thing in the world shifts with every heartbeat, flickering between letters, words, and numbers—twisting, convulsing, transforming—while your mind is swept under the avalanche, devoured by a single solitary thought.