Your friend - the worrier
Life is better than ever - so why are so many people unhappy? Whenever I hear people say that things are bad (Life in the Philippines is miserable, says the expat, but life in my home country as well), I think of my late grandma (”Lola”), born 1899 in Germany into a really awful world. Also the so-called “Golden Twenties between World War I and II have been everything but golden for her and my former relatives. Lola never complained, even during the sorrowful times in the former East Germany (German Democratic Republic). Lola reached the ripe old age of 85.
We hardly count our blessings. We love to count our crosses. Instead of gains, we count our losses. We don’t have to do all that counting - computers do it for us. Information is easliy had.
My dear reader, even while living in the Philippines as an expat, and while experiencing that it is not moving so smooth from time to time, just remember this: Opportunity doesn’t just knock - it jiggles the doorknob. And your “friend”, the worrier is with you day and night, at every corner, following your steps.
Complaining are good excuses, right? We have time and opportunities to do almost anything. So why haven’t we done it? We have the freedom of bondage or restraint, every one of us in his or her very special unique way - but we’re still our old inferior selves.
The job is boring. I don’t get a job. I don’t get a GOOD job. The house is an unpleasant mixture of tidy and dirty things. It’s a mess. But I am not in the mood to arrange it. Look at my garden. But I can’t afford a gardener. Could I afford a maid in my home country? Of course not. That’s life. How sad. The whole world is an awful place filled with dreadful and horrible negativism.
Yes, I confess. I am also surrounded by a lot of worriers, who put their fears into me. Politicians, i.e. many times love to search for some grave alarm that will cause individuals to abandon their separate concerns and act in concert, so that politicians can wield the baton. Calls to fatal struggles and fights are forever being sounded. No, no, that’s not a political comment.
The bullying of fellow citizens by means of dreads and fright has been going on since long times. The night wolf is eating the moon. Give me silver and I’ll make him spit it out…
So, when will we start counting our courage and not our fear, or joy instead of our woe? Worry itself is pointless. And, something very important for every worrier among you and me: No society has achieved perfectly rules of law, never-ending education or unique responsible governments. Let’s seek out the worries but avoid the worriers, because they try to avoid liberty. Sorry, if I am to deep again, but since I follow these advices, also my living in the Philippines as an expat became easier.
If you’re still worrying right now, especially yours or your family’s future, try to read Jeremiah 29:10-14 or Revelation 21:1-8, just to mention these two. It works… :lol:
Hi Klaus - I find that if we complain, things are nothing but bad. If we can put our complaints aside and enjoy our lives, the more we see good things. It works for me!
Excellent article Klaus. Also read Ezekiel 18:31 and Mark 4:19 or Luke 21:34. There are many things we do in human tradition that come from the word of God but tradition has masked the spiritual truth. As an example a wedding of the bridegroom and bride signifies the marriage of Jesus Christ (bridegroom) to His church (bride). The bride wears white which signifies the white robe of righteousness that Christ puts on His bride. However take that a step further and why does the bride always keep the bridegroom waiting at the altar ? Not only is it traditional but that is what God’s people are doing (bride) to Jesus Christ (bridegroom). He is waiting for His bride to arrive.
I have explained this comparison to my asawa to be and asked her if she will be on time for our wedding so that we can set a good example before God at the altar when we get married next year in the Philippines.
Hi Bob, you are so very right. Thanks a lot.
Hi Richard, wonderful thoughts. Thanks a lot for sharing with us. If you get married next year, please let us know. Where it will be?
Hello Klaus,
Your reference to the former GDR made me recall a visit/tour taken there in the 1970s. I was a US Army soldier then stationed in Giessen (2nd Bn 2nd ADA “Hawk”) and won a trip to Berlin, and a tour of the GDR. We crossed over from the west (Berlin) through the east-west border infamously known as “Check-point Charley”. We were not allowed to speak with the residents on the east side but we commuincated with one another through our eyes and facial expressions. What a bleak and dreary place that was. I remember seeing shrucken heads in a museum and many other horrors such as crosses laid on the west side for failed escape attempts. Sorry for getting off-topic, but thanks for jarring my memory.
regards
Harvey
Hi Harvey, thanks a lot for visiting my blog. You’re very right, most all places in the former GDR (East Germany) have been like this. Of course, it’s a little bit getting off-topic, but it was also my past. Living in (West)Berlin (my wife worked in the US-airbase Berlin-Tempelhof in Stars and Stripes Bookstore), I experienced the “two different worlds” (West and East) daily and especially, while visiting my grandma. Our family has been destroyed, because during that time also many in laws were no more allowed to communicate with me or my mam. Once upon a time, but thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. The checkpoint charly reminded me of many sad stories. But this another story.
Hi Du
I think its an exellent point of birth now,
starting, becoming aware of being the creator of my own worrying .
To worry is the basis of suffering… and only YOU can change these habits+thinking structures more and more, little by little when you learn to be HAPPY when you get aware of them.
Say hello to them:” YES, U R WELLCOME !”, to your special kind of unique doing - being.
* Its you, its KLAUS *
YOU ARE ok! LOVED as you are!
Its a process of awaking + growing up , of becoming more + more conscious about ” my doing for whom I am responsible” and ” I love me therefore.”
;-*) , gudrun
Hi Gudrun, great words, but very true. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts with all of us and thanks for visiting my blog. Danke schoen.