Keeping the Elephants Away??

With whole new loads of fresh worries coming into my system daily, i had to find a way to deal with them before i die of stress. Funny how life gives you hints when you are searching for answers. I found mine in a small booklet, while shopping in an unexpected place.

Did you know that worrying is paying interest in troubles that may never come due? If you are good at math, you should know overly worrying about things doesnt do you any good.

Here's a good story on worrying:

A man was sitting on a park bench shredding old newspapers and spreading them around. "What are you doing?" asked a bystander. "Im spreading this paper around to keep the elephants away." The visitor looked around the well kept city park. "I dont see any elephants" he said. The man smiled "Works pretty good doesnt it," he replied.

Worry is like that. We expend alot of energy on problems that don't exist. Yes we all face real problems but we often create additional ones by thinking of all the bad things that might happen but never do.

If you are guilty of this too, know this: Worry superimposes the future on the present. Therefore do not worry about tommorrow for tommorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
(Extracted from a liitle booklet "What Can i do with my worry?")

GEDDIT? So stop being silly by tearing up papers and spreading them around!!

End Note: PMS excluded

Pic from here