When we take an issue further than it needs to go, then we are making the issue: the issue is not making itself. Sometimes when something goes wrong, it becomes an issue – and it needs to be addressed in the sense that; whatever is required to prevent the recurrence of that problem needs to be done. But sometimes we keep dragging up the issue even after the problem has been fixed. At such times, the issue is no longer the problem, we have become the problem. The Bhagavad Gita talks in 18.35 about determination in the mode of ignorance: which prolongs problems far more than they are needed to be.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.