Worry Only About Things You Can Do Something About

Sorry to be so late this year with cards and poems, but this year has been one heck of a year, especially the fall.

Summer and fall were busier than usual and we threw in a lovely river cruise in Europe in October. And that is where I “get in touch with my mortality,” as it were. In short, I caught a really bad cold, coughed deeply and broke a vertebrae in my back (compression fracture). Of course, we completed the trip with the help of ibuprofen for what I thought was just a sore back.

Presently, I am under the best possible care and am improving each day exponentially. In another couple weeks or so, the pain should be gone and I’ll be back to my life! 

In the meantime, Christmas is happening and my usual schedule of shipping, wrapping, addressing and delivering, etc., has been disrupted. Bear with me and you should receive this card by Easter!

Taking stock of “Where I was” with a broken vertebrae, and the accompanying pain with that, plus anxiety about “getting it all done in time” brought me to the choice of what I would write about. It’s especially fitting for this December.

WORRY ONLY ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT

“Worry” is to feel anxious or troubled
About actual or potential problems.
Anxiety, apprehension, concern and fear
Are sometimes the feelings you have, pro tem.

“Worry pretends to be necessary,
But serves no useful purpose.”
Eckhart Tolle shared these wise words.
It does not provide any impetus.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow
It empties today of its strength.”
Our fatigue is often caused not by work,
But by worry, and in your years, shorten its length.

Julius Caesar noticed and commented, in his wisdom,
That “men worry more about what’s not seen
Than what is” — the fear of the unknown, I guess.
Or the fear of encountering the unseen.

It makes no sense to worry about things
Over which you have no control.
There’s nothing you can do about them anyway.
So keep your mind clear and play your best role.