Sat, 21.06.08 1124hours
A few years ago, i was suffering intensely from pain in my stomach. i would awaken 2 or 3 times each night, unable to sleep because of these teraffic pains.
I was working under constant pressure. I could never relax. I always tense, hurried, n high-strung.
One day while cleaning out my desk, I got an idea that proved to be immensely helpful. I was looking over an accumulation of old notes or sermons and other memos on matters that were past n gone. I crumpled them up one by one n tossed them into the wastebasket. Suddenly I stopped n said to myself: "Muzri, why don't you do the same thing with your worries that you are doing with these notes? Why don't you crumple up your worries about yesterday's problem and toss them into the wastebasket?" That idea gave me immediate inspiration- gave me the feeling of a weight being lifted from my shoulders. From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can longer do anything about.
Then, one day while wiping the dishes as my wife washed them, I got another idea. My wife was singing as she washed dishes, n I said to my self: "Look, Muzri, how happy your wife is. We have married almost 2 years, and she has been washing dishes all time.
Then I said to myself: "The reason my wife doesn't mind washing the dishes is because she washed only one day's at a time." I saw what my trouble was. I was trying wash today's dishes, yesterday's dishes and dishes that weren't even dirty yet.
I saw how foolish I was acting..I myself was leading a tense, worried, hurried existense.
I felt ashamed of myself.
Worries don't bother me any more now. I crumple up yesterday's anxieties and toss them in to wastebasket, I have ceased trying to wash tomorrow's dirty dishes today.
