“Do you never worry?”, Would it help?

“Would it help?”, three words that I remember from the excellent movie based on a true story – “Bridge of Spies”.

Tom Hanks plays the character of James Donavan – an American lawyer defending Rudolf Abel – a Russian Spy played by Mark Rylance.

Throughout the movie, Abel faces an uphill battle because he is hated by both Americans and Russians alike as a spy who got caught on U.S. soil.

Rudolf faces a possible death penalty.

Despite grave circumstances, Rudolf is always calm, composed, and stoic.

Consider these dialogues between James and Rudolf

Scene 1 (In the Prison)

Rudolf: Have you represented spies before

James: This will be the first for both of us

Rudolf: Alright

James: All right, you accept

Rudolf: Yes, all right

James: You don’t speak to anyone, I have the mandate to serve you, everybody else has an interest in sending you to the electric chair.

Rudolf: Alright

James: You don’t seem alarmed

Rudolf: “Would it help?”

Scene 2 (In the courtroom)

Rudolf: How did we do?

James: Not too good, do you never worry?

Rudolf: “Would it help?”

Scene 3 (When he is released back to the Soviets)

James: Is there not a possibility?

Rudolf: That my people are going to shoot me?

James: Yes, you are not worried?

Rudolf:  “Would it help?”

It is mental health awareness week.

It is impossible to live without getting anxious or stressed, our deterministic thinking does not prepare us to live in a probabilistic world.

If you are worried or overthinking, just ask yourself,

“Would it help?”

I have written about men's mental health in the past, read here

https://lnkd.in/ezsakrAk

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