I once had someone tell me that I can only worry about something 5 minutes a day until I have all the facts. And then, and only then, could I worry about it if the information pointed to what we didn’t want to read or hear. And if that was the case, then we would start tackling it little by little & make what seemed to be a mountain at first, into a mole hill. But up until that exact moment where we had all the facts, 23 hours & 55 minutes of everyday were to be used for happiness & love & kids & laundry & everything else.

If you ask me, that advice is some pretty good stuff. Excellent actually. Because life is scary. Global warming. The evening news. The economy. Flesh eating bacteria’s that you never knew existed. Kidnapping. Cancer. And those are just things I thought of off the top of my head as I am writing this. But somehow we still manage to press on. We still manage to get our daily jobs done & sometimes we might even find time to relax for a minute despite all the bad and scary that exists. And we are able to do that, press on & enjoy life, because we are not adding the scary stuff we do know about to the scary stuff we have no idea about. We aren’t actively worrying about every little thing that could happen. Are they lying dormant in the back of our minds, just patiently waiting for any one tiny thing to spark the fear alive? Probably. But in this particular moment, I’m not afraid or worried. And that’s because if you take the unnecessary fear part out of the equation sometimes, it helps us to not get too caught up in the if’s, and’s, & but’s that can come with any territory. You might say it causes us to proceed with caution. Which is probably correct. But the main word in that statement is “proceed”. Because that means you are still moving forward, you’re still pressing on. And that’s a good thing.

It’s easy to get caught up in our worries. As much as I hate to admit it, I probably get caught up in them almost daily. I worry about stares. I worry about my joints. I worry about my kids happiness. Etc & Etc. But I do try very hard to stick to that 5 minute worry rule. Because I don’t know if my knee joint will ever wear out or if I’ll ever need a knee or hip replacement. I don’t know if the lady staring at me in the Grocery Store is staring because of the whole one leg thing or if she just really likes my sweater. And because of the unknown factor, that 5 minute rule comes in handy. Because it keeps me from wasting my day instead of enjoying it. If one thing is for certain, it’s that we only get a limited number of minutes in our days. That’s a known fact. So we should use them as best we can. Worrying is inevitable. But the amount of time we spend worrying is our decision. So I urge you to choose wisely. Choose to enjoy 23 hours & 55 minutes of today & everyday and not a second less.

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