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Today's Reflection

Worry turns mole hills into mountains and transforms a small puddle into a raging impassable river.  Instead of looking at life’s little hand grenades for what they really are, our sad little minds turn them into weapons of mass self-destruction.  Worry is not just a waste of your energy – worry, at best, is stifling the life out of you – at worst, it is the cancer that is eating you from the inside out.

What sensible person would willingly decide to direct their mental energy into something that they do not want to happen?  Yet that is what worry is.  Perhaps it goes to prove that there are very few sensible people around.   I’ve spoken to plenty of people over the last year who are worried about losing their jobs – not because their jobs are in any jeopardy but because they’ve seen other people lose theirs and they daily wallow in the bad news that is choking the airwaves.   I’ve spoken to many people who are worried about not having enough money – who, at the very same time, have bought themselves new cars, comforted themselves with a few designer-labelled garments and, after that splurge, have ended up worrying even more!

Which is the more sensible thing to do?   Worry about losing your job or doing the job to the very best of your ability?  Worry about money or re-focus your attention on the simple things that are truly important in life?   Direct your energy into what you don’t want to happen or pour your energy into the here and now in the expectation that the things that you want to happen will come to pass?

The normal mind is the author of its own misery.   I’m not saying that bad things don’t happen – the point I’m making is that, when they do, there are very few people who are mentally fit enough to get on with what needs to be done to dig themselves out of the hole and start afresh.  Rather, the opposite is the case – the normal person, even when he or she has more than they need to live a perfect life, actively goes looking for a shovel!

So, if you find yourself worrying today – shame on you.  Outside events don’t worry anyone – it is you who decides to worry – and it’s ruining your life.

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