It has become my opinion that many people are addicted to worrying. Just as some people are addicted to drama, and always have to have a problem, I believe a far more common ailment in our society has become an addiction to worrying. So many of us have to have something to worry about - it´s almost as if we feel uneasy when everything around us is actually going well. And so we worry about something, and when that problem has vanished, we find another worry to replace it.
This made me begin to think about what it would be like to have the opposite problem - to live ones life on the contrary. What would it be like to have a life where one didn´t worry enough? Imagine being in a constant state of tranquility because you know that worrying changes nothing and because you realize that it is futile to worry that the happiness you do have is going to go away.
Today it dawned on me how much this addiction gets in the way of accepting our current happiness. So many of us having great things going for us. We tell our friends that we are happy where we are at this moment in our lives. There are so many exciting things happening in our lives. We have so much to be happy about and so much to be thankful for - Yet, we aren´t fully embracing our happiness because we continue to worry. Every moment spent worrying takes away from time that could be spent appreciating the happiness we have now. We worry and worry about something that might happen, and eventually something does happen (because that is life) but we look back and we realize we didnt really make the most of those times that were truly happy, joyful periods in our life.
With that realization, my initiative has become to enjoy this exciting, amazing period of my life. To not take this joy for granted - and to not waste the bliss worrying.
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