26/9/05

A little shaken, a little affected.
The tree should not to ponder when the scale of nature was tipped once again.
Bracing itself, today it wonders.
Thoughts inside, the hearts awaken.
Although the equilibrium moved, although the wind blew,
the leaves should remain on the tree, the fruits should stay on the tree.
Imperfection inside, kept within. None to know, none should care.
Once revealed, pain is hard to bear.
Days shall pass, as the moon and sun fulfill its duties.
It shall manage its bearings, and stay for eternity.

I was a little tired today. No much, just a little. Somehow my mind came up with the pros and cons of handling a project. Pros, you'll learn more, remember more, benefits long term learning. Cons, stress and too much thoughts. Somehow, although my mind was alot more easy this semester, I was worried about my learning slightly. Well, its a give and take. I'll rather enjoy my life more. *you damn slacker!!* (scolding myself)

I got much to say but it just couldn't come out of my mind. Sometimes my mind is dead. Don't want to think, don't want to speak. Just wait and wait and wait, until my mind wakes up. I have dual personality, beware my friends.

Slice of Life

Worry

If you're like most people, you worry about problems. In most cases, it's not the problem in question that's causing distress, but the worrying itself.

Worry inhibits clear thinking, it drains us of energy, and it upsets our sleep. It can make us irritable, bitter, regretful, pessimistic, fearful and depressed. Worry turns us all into cowards. It makes us turn away from acting on a problem. Worry pushes us back into ourselves, reinforces the impression that the worst will happen, that we can't cope, that we are helpless in the flow of circumstances that carry us to our ultimate unhappiness.

Problems are often created and imposed upon us by other people, or rather, by our inability to prevent other people from loading that weight of trouble on our shoulders. We habitually and implicitly say 'yes' to problems, because many of us do not have the coping techniques to assert 'no'.

Here are some ways you might be able to control your worrying.

Think about what is worrying you, and ask yourself what possible action you can take to alleviate the problem. Then take that action immediately.

To bring harmony into your life is to accept that some things are quite beyond our control. As the saying goes 'Change what you can change and accept what you can't'.

Worry thrives on inactivity and lack of choice, it lies coiled in quiet places. So launch yourself into a busy routine of work and leisure. By keeping your mind occupied on other things, it will have less time to worry.

Our days can be riddled with problems, each problem bringing with it the burden of worry. But to know that a problem is a perception is already to have divested ourselves of some of its weight. The world is what it is to us because of the way we choose to see it.

In most cases, for most of the time, problems are simply thoughts in the imagination, without necessarily any firm basis in external reality. Worrying is a waste of our precious time, we cannot control events or circumstances, we can only do our very best in trying to solve the problem. So instead of using up your energy in worrying, use the energy to take action.

Some people will go to enormous lengths to avoid doing something they find embarrassing or difficult, tedious, unfamiliar, new. The trouble is that many problems just don't go away by themselves. In procrastinating, we hold ourselves back. We may wish the problem had never happened. But it has. And the only way through to a trouble-free tomorrow is to tackle those troubles today.