Musing has positive side effects like art, stories, or music. Unless you write out a composition entailing the life story of two orphan children from France set on a Starry Night backdrop, you're not musing, you're brooding.

[Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Hal.]

As for the rest of it, we've all got people we're worried about, Hal. But we can't let that define our actions here.