I know people that worry about EVERYTHING. And I get that we all have issues and what not. But some people worry about everything, their jobs, their finances, their girlfriends, their parents, their parents' jobs, their girlfriends jobs, etc and it just goes on until they're losing sleep worrying about their 3rd cousin twice removed and have a head of grey hair at age 23.
I rarely ever worry. About anything. I learned at a relatively young age to have a simple outlook on life. It eliminates virtually all worries, and it works. First, you have to assume that there are only two kinds of problems in the world.
Those you CAN solve, and those you CANT solve.
Now there's no sense worrying about the ones you CAN solve, right? (Since you CAN solve them, they arent really problems!)
There's also no point worrying about the ones you CANT solve. ( If you could solve them, they wouldnt be problems anyway, but since you CANT solve them, why worry about them?)
Do you worry a lot?
Allicrombie
I mean...yes and no.
My life kind of sucks right now, and recent developments could make it a whole lot worse, so yes I worry. On the other hand, as someone else said, there's not a whole lot of point worrying about stuff that one can't do anything else. I worry about a lot of stuff often. But sometimes I just need a break from worrying. In those cases, I'm just like, "well...not much I can do right now aside from sitting around worrying. So...**** it. Right now I'd be better off just having a few drinks and watching a movie, and forgetting about all that other stuff."
Yes, sometimes worrying helps and sometimes it doesn't. In the cases in which worrying DOESN'T help, it doesn't make much sense to worry since all that accomplishes is making me feel bad. Granted, that kind of logical assessment isn't always enough to STOP me from worrying. But I do make an attempt to not worry so much about the things that are out of my control. That attempt isn't always successful, but I usually at least try.
In any case, even when I am worried, I usually try to keep that to myself. I've met people who are always talking about how they are worried, and they're really no fun to be around. Seriously, they're almost as bad (and in some cases even worse) than the people who are always complaining about how everything sucks. Don't get me wrong...I'm not advocating covering up all of life's problems with smiles and cupcakes. I'm just saying that some people really need to grow a pair and stop acting like everything revolves around them. Seriously, EVERYONE has problems, but I'd prefer to surround myself with people who aren't constantly making the discussion revolve around their own worries and annoyances. I understand that it's important to vent. But if one needs to vent, then it's probably more important to not make me want to ****ing avoid him/her. After all, if I'm constantly avoiding someone because they worry and complain too much, then that obviously makes it a hell of a lot harder for for them to share their worries and complaints with me.
Everyone has worries and complaint and needs to vent sometimes. Yes, I understand that. However, that's all the more reason to pick and choose what to worry and complain about. We ALL have worries and complaints. And me listening to someone else's worries and complaintsa is sort of them making their problem MY problem. And...why would I want that, considering that I've already got enough problems of my own? I'll put up with a certain degree of worrying and complaining, but when people go way overboard and do that **** ALL THE TIME, then it's usually simply not worth it for me to continue associating with that person. I've got enough problems of my own, and I don't need to surround myself with people who have that level of negativity.
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