Yesterday…I found out that the changes at work that had made me so sad…
probably weren’t going to happen…
Hmmm…I was immediately reminded of Mark Twain’s quote…
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
So…I had wasted a lot of time…feeling sad…experiencing loss…and…it was unnecessary…
I was just about to…beat myself up about it…the futility of fretting and worrying…and all that kind of thing…but…Bertha…interrupted me…telling me that it wasn’t a wasted experience at all…
No…far from it…the contemplation of the proposed changes…had helped me to dig down to what was important for me…to what I cared about…to what I could do without…to what I had to have…to what I was grateful for…to what I believed in…
And…I have to agree…that wasn’t wasted time at all…
Jane
Hi Jane 🙂 Great post and you alwys seem to really put your ideas on paper so well. Thanks for the blogpost. It applies to me as well… because I am worrying a lot and would be better served to do the work I need to get done and stop worrying.
Thank you so much Hella. Someone posted on my FB link that worrying is like paying interest on a debt that you don’t owe. I really liked that expression of it. Have a worry-free day!