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One that hopefully will reassure you that even if life doesn't go the way you expected, and you feel like sh#t, everything will be alright.
If you don't worry, please leave a comment as to how you broke free from worry or better yet, how you stay clear of it.
So when I started this post, the main subject was worry. As I wrote and the theme developed more, it began to focus on expectations and disappointment also. Yeah, you're right, I can be a real scatter brain sometimes.
Hey, if you're human, chances are you have dealt with one or even both of these every once in awhile.
Have you ever had the feeling that you worry just a tad too much? Alright, maybe you're one of the lucky ones that never has. Good for you.
How about this one: You have this awesome inspired moment when everything just falls into place, you celebrate by jumping up in the air shouting Yeah!
But nothing even comes close to turning out how you expected it would.
You're not alone.
Disappointment sucks, Not only that, if we're not careful, it can also lead to worry, which really sucks.
If our minds get crammed full of worry, there is no room for the good things in life. The grand-kids and the kids asking us "why" every time we do something, the lovely spouse we share our life with. Priceless moments will be missed.
We miss them only because we are too busy dreaming up future catastrophes which will probably never happen.
I can recall a time in my life when I struggled with worry every day.
No, I didn't wake up one day and all of a sudden find myself overcome with worry, it was a little more subtle than that.
Worry has a way of sneaking up on you. It starts out by being concerned about something and before you know it: BAM. The mind goes into fast forward creating catastrophic events that very seldom happen.
Then the anxiety and grief creeps in. Not far behind is the stomach cramps and ulcers.
At first, it doesn't appear to be a problem. It feels natural.
Eventually over time, I believed worry was exactly what I needed to be doing. My way of dealing with things instead of really dealing with them.
Flood of Thoughts
So several months ago I was sitting out on my front porch enjoying a warm end of summer night. Just chilling out with the stars and the deer eating out of a bird feeder in my neighbors front yard.
All of a sudden, paragraphs and sentences start flowing into my head about worry and anxiety. Like somebody opened up the floodgates of thought.There were some really cool thoughts and ideas.
So I'm sitting there totally amazed as all this stuff comes rushing into my head.
Finally it hit me. Dave...why are you not writing this down...you fool.
Normally, I would have a pen and paper close by. For some reason, this night I didn,t. So I jumped up out of my chair, grabbed a pen and paper and just started writing like a madman until it stopped.
If you're a blogger, you can definitely relate to this. I'm sure you had those moments where everything comes rushing in and you are in total awe. It's like somebody wrote an article and just stuck it in your head.
It is an exciting experience .
So, the next day I sat down at my computer and began to pull it all together. After three hours, I had managed to put together what appeared to be a full page of mumbo jumbo...no matter what I did, it just wasn't coming together the way I thought it would.
I was so upset, I jumped out of my chair and walked away from it. I came back to it after a few hours or so, sat down and reluctantly opened it back up again. After a few moments of staring at the screen, I began to type.Everything began to come together.
Now when something like this happens, you think wow. this is gonna be awesome. it all just came together, it was meant to be ...this is bound to go viral. Tons of shares, tons of comments.
Heck,I'll even put a Amazon link on there and make a ton of money at the same time.
Ouch
Well... it didn't quite turn out that way. I got some views ..but not what I expected considering this was a totally inspired endeavor. Plus my Amazon account was still registering 0 dollars.So yea,I was a little disappointed. But I still had more to write. So I hyped myself up and got busy writing the 2nd installment and...surprise...surprise...the end results were just about the same with the 2nd as with the 1st.
Now, I was a little more than disappointed. I was frustrated. How could all this stuff come to me so effortlessly like it was meant to be and then just...Bomb out
So, what's the point? Why did I even bother?
Light Bulb Moment
But then I had this moment of Revelation. Kind of like a little slap on the side of the head.
Even though things didn't go quite the way I thought they would, that doesn't mean it wasn't a success. Who knows, maybe 1 person's life was changed and I will never know about it.
So, I have arrived at a happy place, where if only one person was affected by what I wrote...it was worth the time and the effort.
What do you think?
Have you ever had something like this happen to you?
How did you feel?
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