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Dear Reader,
I worry way too much. If you've been reading my daily column for a while, you obviously know it's not the first time I've fessed up to being a worrywart. Hmm, am I using an incorrect spelling? Is it worrywart? Or worrywort? (Great, something else to worry about.)
Even Google couldn't squelch my spelling worry--seems you can take your pick. It depends on whose entry you want to believe. But I did find some worrywart comfort as I was researching the origin of worrywart. You know how if you have some affliction and you find someone else who has it, you're not happy they suffer from the same thing you do, but for some reason there is a bit of comfort in discovering you're not the only one.
Well I discovered there are oodles of us worrywarts, but we shouldn't worry that we're to blame. In researching worrywart, I think that cartoonist J. R. Williams is somewhat responsible for our worry afflictions. Mr. Williams took little, every day worries and put them centerstage in a popular cartoon strip called Worry Wart back in the 40s. Worry Wart was the name of a character who caused others to worry. Yes, Worry Wart stayed worry-free but only because he passed his worries onto all the people around him, including my dad who loved to read the funnies, and then my dad passed the worrywart thing on to me. Okay, so I don't know that for sure, but at the moment it sounds comforting that my worrying isn't all my fault.
"Help yourself not to worry," therapists tell us worriers. And one of the techniques they preach is, "Don't worry about worrying, just accept the fact that you are worrying."
So I'm trying not to worry, that I'm worrying, instead I'll acknowledge the fact that I'm worrying--but isn't that the problem with worrying? I know I'm worrying, I acknowledge I'm worrying and I just keep on worrying. This is all getting too complicated for me. This column is going nowhere. I'm worried that I can't make this work today...so I'm outta here.
Talk to you tomorrow.
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Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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HOLD ON (Fiction) by Samantha Young
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I can relate! This is perfect. And for the record, my vote goes for "worrywart" - with NO worries! Have a worry free weekend!
Posted by: Jane H. | March 22, 2019 at 10:45 AM