if you can, why worry? if you cannot, why worry?

Worry, tension, anxiety, fear how so ever you may call, it is the biggest and the most harmful disease a person suffers from and as any other sickness it indeed is futile. I know it’s not aggravated by us nor do we force ourselves into worrying, it is a natural phenomenon that everybody goes through. But Why Worry? Will it help or make things better in any case? Analysing human abilities, there are two possible outcomes to any problem we face - at the end it will be solved or in the worst case, we wont be able to overcome the same. So the point is, if we have the ability to solve a certain problem then why worry? as we know we can do it and if we don't have the ability to do so, why worry? It won’t help you get out of the trouble. Sit back, relax and see what fate has in store for you.

When people worry they actually tend to predict future and foresee adverse aspects of the given situation. First thing it does it break your moral down, you lose your senses and get into a state of panic as you see negative force driving you. In crisis what you need is calm – cool headed decisions made at the best of your ability which is already a remote idea as you are surrounded by worries. So instead of having your adrenaline run faster, leading to better results, it rather slows down and things eventually end up getting worse than what was thought. Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. This brings me to a very interesting fact once stated by Robert Frost as he said – ‘the reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.’ So if one is going through a patchy time, s/he should rather try and calm oneself and seek for a probable solution than worrying for the outcome. Every situation is created and ultimately is solved by a man. I don’t know about the rest but we taureans believe that ‘there is nothing that a man can do better than me’. I don’t say it’s true, I don’t say taureans are super-humans, but the belief that we can overcome the situation does help. As the legend says man is the only animal, smart enough to build the empire state building and foolish enough to jump off it. So the choice is yours. Believe in yourself that you can do it and if not be smart enough to leave it for the life to handle the situation but don’t be the foolish one to keep worrying about the outcome when it’s not in your hand to influence the result.

To sum it up I would like to quote the light Irish philosophy which says –

There are only two things to worry about:

Either you are well or you are sick.

If you are sick,
Then there are only two things to worry about:
Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well,
Then there is nothing to worry about.

If you die,
Then there are only two things to worry about:
Either you will go to heaven or hell.

If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.

But if you go to hell,
You'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends
You won't have time to worry!