Life This Week 12/2/2018: Who’s A Worrier?


Me!!!

My theory is that if it’s been worried over, it won’t happen.

What if those pay per ride bikes people have taken to casually discarding on the footpaths where I live caused someone to trip over and hurt themselves?  Or what if someone drove over a carelessly parked bike and ruined their vehicle’s transmission?  None of it is going to happen thanks to my worrying and the more practical actions of my neighbours who prop them up out of harm’s way.

Not sure how to decode those cries?  Worrying probably won’t yield an answer but it will you feel as if you’re doing something….

What if I run out of my favourite food wrappings?  Iwon’t know that I’ve worried about it, created a shopping list and bought catering sized rolls that are now stockpiled in my kitchen cupboards?
What if I miss out on whatever’s at the end of the line I’ve joined?  I don’t actually have a good answer for this one because I’m too old to wait in line for ‘free stuff’ these days.  Because that’s just what it is.  Stuff.  That I have no use or space for.

I’m one of those people for whom a baseline level of low-grade worrying is as normal a part of my day as breathing and just as reassuring.  The ‘worry’ helps me be more organized, productive and objective about the minor ups and downs of life.

Are you a worrier?  What do you worry over?  Do you feel that your worrying is productive?


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