September 20, 2009

Worry

My wife and I saw the play Wicked tonight (go see it if you get the chance).

On the way to the show, we drove by a church that always displays some kind of quotation, saying, or scripture passage on the billboard sign in front of the church's property.

The quote tonight was particularly corny, but I really appreciated its message:

"Worry is a darkroom where negative thoughts develop."

My hero Samuel Johnson said pretty much the same thing in 1750:

"The misfortunes that arise from the concurrence of unhappy incidents should never be suffered to disturb us before they happen; because if the breast be once laid open to the dread of mere possibilities of misery, life must be given a prey to dismal solicitude, and quite must be lost forever."

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