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Let’s Acknowledge Our Growth — We Deserve It!
That ‘constant worrying’ is suddenly hard to find
Rushing through life, I’d never had time to notice the flowers, the trees, the pleasant things in my life.
But I must be improving…
I was sitting at my desk, not looking to force a thought onto the page, just being. Relaxing in the moment. Then suddenly a thought I hadn’t had in quite a long time struck me.
Where has that ‘needless worrying’ disappeared?
You might know the one — a constant companion through childhood, weaving its way through every thread in life. Ever-vigilant, looking to pounce at the next opportunity to show its worth.
I was a highly anxious child, who then, with no coaching on how to alleviate these nagging thoughts, continued to do so into my 20s and 30s.
In hindsight, of course, so many things were pointless worries, that never occurred, or if they did, were not half as bad as I’d been preparing for.
Oh, had there been adults around who shared these perspectives with us in a way we’d see could apply to ourselves, I’d have worried about worrying less.
At one stage this was almost debilitating for me. Only two things saved me from giving up — my sheer willfulness…
