{"id":14932,"date":"2023-09-02T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T06:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:05:22","slug":"now-is-not-the-time-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/now-is-not-the-time-to-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO WORRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Many years ago one of my friends decided to top himself with a drug overdose at the ripe old age of 23<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After his funeral I rode my mountain bike up to the top of a local hill and sat looking out over the view. Strangely a voice in my head seemed to say &#8220;don&#8217;t worry about it, there&#8217;s no point worrying about anything &#8211; what is done is done&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I felt like a huge burden had just been lifted and his death had one good side effect. Downhill racing was a new sport back then but I was fully into it, so I let rip, with no worries whatsoever and had a very fast clean run back down the hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/69a9adb9e509d7222688069a3905a665cdc19551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/69a9adb9e509d7222688069a3905a665cdc19551.png 700w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/69a9adb9e509d7222688069a3905a665cdc19551-500x356.png 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/69a9adb9e509d7222688069a3905a665cdc19551-200x142.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Later on when I first started blogging on the Steemit blockchain, I did a post about not worrying. It was probably one of my better posts, but it only got six votes and earned me zero cents. From that point every time I heard anyone bleating about how shit their payout was, I just thought &#8220;don&#8217;t worry about it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I guess, if we are lucky, one day we arrive at a point when we realise a lot of our friends are long gone, as our many of our heroes. Or maybe most of them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mot\u00f6rhead  &quot;Heroes&quot;  (David Bowie Cover)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J06yQb4lbPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And these days if I find myself living with a daily dose of pain from all the injuries I wasn&#8217;t worried about getting back then, there is no point worrying about that either. I know what the alternative is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Something I never used to do was mention personal stuff like voices in my head. But a voice in my head just said &#8220;repost that worry post again, and don&#8217;t fucking worry about any of this New World Order shit &#8211; you are not here to worry&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/cdn.steemitimages.com\/DQmTBvAYJw68yMq9MoL5iUnfVYxACfGmUJVXJTcbQiN3MH3\/image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">So here is an updated version of my post from August 2016:<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IT&#8217;S BEYOND OUR CONTROL<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/steemit\/@sift666\/it-s-beyond-our-control\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/steemit\/@sift666\/it-s-beyond-our-control<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/FawXzDNP-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u201cWhatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not\u201d &#8211; is an excellent quote from Ana Monnar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The wisdom inherent in that saying is vast. People are endlessly addicted to worrying \u2013 from my mother to about half of everyone who posts anything on the internet. Self help gurus like Louise Hay are constantly saying that what you think about and focus on become your reality. And Carl Jung once said \u201cWhat you resist persists\u201d. There are many variations of the basic premise that what you focus on, you get more of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/JT0Abpo4-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now the whole process seems to have accelerated, and it\u2019s like watching life at hyper speed. I\u2019m watching people posting about corruption, censorship, oppression, incompetence, dire future predictions, and daunting realisations. And I\u2019ve long been drawn to all that stuff myself. But it\u2019s essentially all beyond my control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/4LtIE5C1-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes I&#8217;d like to read more posts full of wisdom, hope, positive predictions, and ground breaking new ideas. Something Louise Hay always said was &#8220;the only thing we are ever dealing with is a thought, and a thought can be changed&#8221; \u2013 or as Bobby McFerrin once sang, \u201cdon\u2019t worry, be happy\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/DZDUOC0N-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019m not writing this from a background of being a happy go lucky, glass half full, positive sort of guy. I\u2019m writing it from a history of being a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d since well before 911, who has been calling \u201cbullshit\u201d since I first learnt the words \u201cbull\u201d and \u201cshit\u201d and grasped that it was possible to connect words together without hyphens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/gWYiqXUl-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now I could go on about end of the world bullshit until the cows come home, and I often do, but it doesn&#8217;t do me much good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/post_wallpaper_006-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/post_wallpaper_006-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/post_wallpaper_006-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/post_wallpaper_006-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/post_wallpaper_006-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The whole \u201cit\u2019s the end of the world and everything is buggered\u201d mindset is just a big black hole. Really, it\u2019s all a giant collection of monsters under the bed, designed to keep people in a state of fear and worry. But there is a good side to this stuff too. As I\u2019ve written on the odd web page or two, there is no \u201cglobal warming\u201d or \u201cclimate change\u201d, oil is abiotic, it\u2019s not a fossil fuel, so is in no danger of ever running out, there are no \u201cnuclear bombs\u201d (they are entirely a fabrication) and mankind as a whole currently enjoys the highest overall standard of living (lifespan, education, income and all sorts of other cool stuff) of any time in human history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/imageedit_2408_8953491859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/imageedit_2408_8953491859.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/imageedit_2408_8953491859-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/imageedit_2408_8953491859-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe (just maybe at this point, because I don\u2019t quite take to this idea like a duck to water just yet) the idea that we are on the brink of giant, and permanent, financial and social apocalypse is not fixed in stone, it\u2019s just one of the options. Either way, worrying about it is not going to prevent any collapse, so it going to do any of us any good. I follow a range of podcasters online such as Jeff Berwick\u2019s (dollarvigilante) and I certainly take into account what they are saying. But let\u2019s face it, I\u2019m not going to flee to Mexico (I live in New Zealand) and if whatever I choose to focus on makes that possible future more likely, I\u2019d be better off to focus on what I want rather that what all the fudporn is saying. Admittedly the fudporn does look pretty accurate, but the globalists are hand feeding it to us so it probably isn&#8217;t helpful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/CXHM7pXR-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So here is my thought for the day, and it\u2019s very new one for me \u2013 what if the \u201ccoming apocalypse&#8221; is no more real than \u201cglobal warming\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/rKxBMLal-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">25 great quotes about worry<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/640x0\/https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/frot\/vT0p9lZ4-image.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Leo F. Buscaglia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry often gives a small thing a big shadow.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Swedish Proverb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cIf you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 E. Joseph Cossman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201dPeople become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cOur fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Dale Carnegie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Elbert Hubbard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cIf you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn\u2019t ask me, I\u2019d still have to say it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 George F. Burns<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWhen I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Arthur Somers Roche<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cIf you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you\u2019ll die a lot of times.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Dean Smith<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWhen one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Joseph Joubert<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cThat the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Cullen Hightower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Erma Bombeck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cThere is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Harold Stephen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cPeople get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 John Jay Chapman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cSomehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Nelson DeMille<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cThe reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Robert Frost<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cEvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Henry Ward Beecher<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWe can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday\u2019s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 John Newton<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cIf you can\u2019t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It\u2019s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Dale Carnegie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cI never worry about action, but only about inaction.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cRule number one is, don\u2019t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it\u2019s all small stuff.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Robert Eliot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cA day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 John Lubbock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u201cWorry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Mary Hemingway<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These quotes are from <a title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.positivityblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/16\/worry-quotes\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.positivityblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/16\/worry-quotes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And if you need a few more, here are another 519 more worry quotes &#8211; <a title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/tag\/worry\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/tag\/worry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/happy19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/happy19.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/happy19-500x188.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/happy19-200x75.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b>@frot is a professional worry management analyst and crypto-currency investor from Wellington, New Zealand. In between meditating and making lists he likes to watch podcasts about the coming demise of human civilization\u00a0and is currently developing a new website called <\/b><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown dropdown-comp right\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.P.1106-1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.P.1106-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.P.1106-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.P.1106-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"DropdownMenu Voting__voters_list\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"#@farhan.sidiqui\/re-frot-do-dead-people-ever-tell-us-what-to-post-on-steemit-20180910t092039124z\" class=\"hentry Comment root\">\n<div class=\"Comment__block\">\n<div class=\"Comment__footer\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"DropdownMenu Voting__voters_list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago one of my friends decided to top himself with a drug overdose at the ripe old age of 23 After his funeral I rode my mountain bike up to the top of a local hill and sat looking out over the view. Strangely a voice in my head seemed to say &#8220;don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPKH7pqgCbmedrxMwHCigqi51ETTGuDpYZM8t5g1cCTKVsvVWw3dYiSBEgWWF24Fgr1NoCyYwCS.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19385,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/a-message-to-myself\/","url_meta":{"origin":14932,"position":0},"title":"A MESSAGE TO MYSELF","date":"October 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY Back in 2016 one of my first posts on Steemit was a message to myself about not worrying It was wise and I wish I'd followed my own advice! IT'S BEYOND OUR CONTROL \u201cWhatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not\u201d -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OBSERVATIONS&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/97q8R5CJ4AwWGiEQYnmmki.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11215,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/like\/dont-worry-be-happy\/","url_meta":{"origin":14932,"position":1},"title":"DON\u2019T WORRY BE HAPPY","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"DON\u2019T WORRY BE HAPPY Eight months ago, soon after I first discovered Steemit because @corbettreport recommended it, I did a post about worry Recently I was looking for that post to send the link to someone and ended up re-reading it. Wow I thought, if I say so myself, that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LIKE&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9338,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/conspiracies\/its-beyond-our-control\/","url_meta":{"origin":14932,"position":2},"title":"IT'S BEYOND OUR CONTROL","date":"September 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"IT'S BEYOND OUR CONTROL \u201cWhatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not\u201d - is an excellent quote from Ana Monnar The wisdom inherent in that saying is vast. 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