I should have listened to Grover…

I remember as a child I had a favourite little golden book.

I stumbled across it ten or so years ago by chance, in a store. Without hesitation I bought it.

I didn’t need to read it, I remembered it in detail, but it took seeing it for the penny to drop.

Why had I forgotten such an invaluable lesson?

All the things I have worried over, often obsessively, I have survived.  Yet each time I chose fear over optimism and hope.

I think we grow to expect the worst case scenario, in order to protect ourselves, just incase it actually is the worst case scenario. And if it’s not, well it’s all up from there.

It’s impossible not to have fear and anxiety, a lot of situations are unpredictable and out of our control. 

I’d like to say that I have conquered my fears, but I have not.  I do deal with the anxiety much better, mainly because I remind myself of the times I’ve made it through.

And I’ve focused a lot on relaxation techniques and tools.

Just like the storyline of the book, I have been responsible for exacerbating my fears. My tendency to catastrophize made my journey more daunting than it had to be.

If only I had have had the foresight to really take on board the pearls of wisdom that little gem of a book presented.