WORRIES ARE TEMPORARY
An old lady was sitting in the park – all alone and dejected.
A young boy – who was sitting on the opposite bench – and was doing some writing work, had been constantly watching this lady who was brooding over some worry.
Finally, after a while, he stopped writing and enquired:
“Madam, I have been observing you. From morning, you have been quite worried.
What’s the matter? Maybe there is some way I can help you
The old lady looked at him and replied: “You know, my son, in life, I have been worried about so many things in life…
… but most of them never happened!”
The young man was surprised to hear that – “troubled about things, that never really happened!”
So he asked again, “Then why are you troubled now?”
She replied, with a tinge of remorse: “I am worried as to why did I unnecessarily worry so much in my life!”
Funny, isn’t it?
But, are we sometimes like this old lady?
Too much worried and disturbed in life…
… sometimes (or perhaps, very often) even about things that have not happened in life?