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Hmm, I don’t know how that header should be completed.
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In my opinion, the standard saying: “Don’t worry, be happy” seems to be too simplified because not only do I doubt that one can be happy all the time, it also would be too exhausting, though a friend of mine did once exclaim jovially: “Worrying works for me! 90% of the things I worry about never happens!”
I guess the philosopher Michel De Montaigne got an even better perspective on this topic: “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
All in all, I guess that being anything else but worried is already a huge improvement.
It’s a challenge not to worry. I used to be a worry wart (yes, even as a kid); nevertheless, at some point in the not so recent past, I read that worrying is planning for a negative future. That really blew my mind open in ......