Do you suppose it is simply Human nature to worry? No way to really avoid it, but simply to control it at times better than others?
Do you think that it is our nature and that we are here to learn to first control it, and then to shed it? Do you think we are alive to learn to let go of it and then learn to be who we truly are?
Or is it just the way it is and just suck it up and deal?
Interestingly enough, when you look up the word in Webster's, (yes, I still use a paper dictionary; I'm old school like that,) that definition isn't the first one. Nope, the first one is this:
worry vb, 1 a : CHOKE, STRANGLE to harass by tearing, biting, or snapping especially at the throat.
I've seen that behavior when my three terriers are going after a vole. It isn't pretty.
Know what's even less pretty? The notion that I, we, do this to ourselves, freely. All the time.
I need to rethink this whole thing.
Namaste' Till Next Time,
Holly aka She Who Really Needs To Stop Worrying
1 comment:
I think the first definition says a lot....distress resulting from concern about something impending or anticipated. There is a world of difference between impending and anticipated, and if we can distinguish one from the other, our worry can be greatly distressed. Never worry worry till worry worried you uses both definitions of the word worry, and you are so right, we tend to worry ourselves worse than your little four legged friends worry the voles.
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