Tag: worry

There’s an A bomb in Wardour Street

Posted on by philipdodson

So went the song by the Jam on the ‘All Mod Cons’ album of 1978.

We’ve had the threat of MAD (mutually assured destruction) from a nuclear war, we’ve had ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ wars, swine flu, bird flu, AIDS, the Mayan predictions and a whole list of certain endings of the human race.

Fear is a tool used by the myth makers to control us, to keep us focused on listening to them, as of course they always know how to save us.

We have our list now. Terrorism, immigrants, global warming, oil running out (it’s been running out all my life, still seems to be plenty of it) and cyber crime.

The thing is you can choose to live in constant fear or you can accept that there have, and always will be challenges. Challenges are what makes life exciting.

There is a phrase ‘the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave person just one’.

Stop listening and taking in fear and focus on living life.

This time last year

Posted on by philipdodson
23 December 2014
23 December 2014

This time last year, where were you with you life?

What worries did you have? What was concerning you for 2015?

How many of them have actually happened? How many of them became reality?

If they did, what were the consequences? How many of them if they did, were anywhere near as bad as we had imagined?

I’m guessing most of them, like 99.9% of them, didn’t happen. The very few that might, were nowhere near as bad as we’d feared. I’m guessing we coped with all the challenges thrown our way in 2015, and I’m guessing we learnt a good deal from each of them.

This time next year sit back a say, I am glad I didn’t worry much in 2016.