If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
— His Holiness The Dalai Lama XIVWorrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you’ll be in the present moment. Then you’ll begin to experience joy in life.
— Brian Weiss
Here’s a story – A couple were worrying about their upcoming journey that required them to cross a rickety makeshift bridge. From well before the journey and through the trip, they kept worrying if the bridge would give way when they would attempt to cross it. When they got to the bridge, they saw that the makeshift bridge had been replaced by a sturdy, permanent one. Thus their worrying was needless and they ruined their days and nights prior to and the entire journey over it. Hence they say,
Cross the bridge when you get to it.
When you’re feeling threatened by things that haven’t happened yet, remember these words:
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson