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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 2/4/09

“What, me worry?”
 
Alfred E. Neuman, the dopey, big-eared fictional mascot for Mad magazine, got it right.  We waste so much time worrying about what we do wrong, what we have failed to do right, what went wrong yesterday, what just might go wrong tomorrow.  Whew! 
 
I know people who, as a result of their habitual worrying, rob themselves and their loved ones of peace and joy.  They destroy their happiness. 
 
My point:  Work hard to make of life what you want it to be.  And then … forget about it.  Enjoy the upticks and downbeats, the incredible wins and the two-by-four-across-the-nose setbacks.  Enjoy your strengths and your weaknesses.  None of us is perfect.  Do not worry yourself sick about it.  So, as my Italian grandmother would say — enjoy!  — jri
 
“The spiritual life is the life of a man’s real
self, the life of that interior self whose flame
is so often allowed to be smothered under
the ashes of anxiety and futile concern.”
        –    Thomas Merton
 
Thank you for the opportunity to visit with you today.  If you enjoy my ramblings, please share them.  If not, please let me know that as well.  Also, I have a new book coming out this month, The Back to Basics Book of Money!  A Couple’s Guide to Financial Peace.  For more info, click on www.b2bbookofmoney.com.
John R. Ingrisano