Thank you, @Breaking Dawn

I called my friend and expressed my feelings and we worked it out. Yay!! I'm so very pleased and we feel closer, it seems...

The pendulum does swing. For many, though, they (we/I) have not lived tough economic times like the Great Depression, and also world war, now climate change, and Covid. It all seems like too much. I don't want to catastrophize, but I am worried on top of my own woes... I hope things improve... I was in the grocery store and had such a difficult time (with anxiety!) over the price everything costs now, and how prices have gone up in such a short time. Then, I thought about the state of the world and felt scared and so sad. My anxiety took off and I had to go straight home.