Worry Wart

Merry Meet! Although I have been struggling these last couple days with the task of writing, this quote caught my attention and seemed to fairly scream "do me! do me!"..lol. So with no further adieu..here is today's quote.

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” Dalai Lama XIV


I am, admittedly, a constant worrier and sometimes need these gentle reminders to just..let it go. I have stayed up all night many times trying to figure out ways to solve issues in my life and face challenges that may be on my horizon. My husband tells me" what can you accomplish at 2 am when everything is closed and everyone is asleep" and my reply is always that I can think, get a plan in motion inside of my head so that when the time comes I am ready to act. Of course, it never gets me anything except bags under my eyes from lack of sleep because I don't know for certainty how it is all going to play out because it is not currently in motion. While all the world is asleep, so too is whatever the event that has caused me to worry. I think the key to it all is learning to trust. If I can trust in my abilities, trust in others to help where it is needed, trust that everything will be as it NEEDS to be, that there is ALWAYS a solution to every problem that may arise, then there really is no need to worry at all. If I am capable of doing something to change the outcome, then I can take those steps to do so and feel productive and a sense of satisfaction when the problem is then rectified. But since I sometimes can't control what happens, can't control the lessons we each need to learn and the circumstances that herald such knowledge, then what purpose does my worry serve? None. It just drains the energy that I could be spending in a more positive and productive way. I ask you all, try not to worry so much in your lives and try to remember that it is full of possibilities for each and every one of us. As Meryl Streep so cleverly stated in the movie Dark Matter, "Worry is interest paid on trouble that hasn't happened yet".
Namaste, be blessed.