WHAT'S THE USE OF WORRYING?

Lake County Mail, Issue 32, 14 January 1948, Page 5

WHAT'S THE USE OF WORRYING?

“ You die if you worry,” says the proverb, “ you die if you don’t. So why worry?” Which shows how much notice we take of coramonsense sayings, because there is almost no time in our lives when we arc not worrying about something. We start at five by worrying about getting enough to cat, usually of the sticky things. The worry of being sick afterwards is passed to somebody else. Parents fondly tell us to make the most of our schooldays—the most carefree part of our lives. On the contrary, they are filled with worries of examinations, and the uncertainty of being neither child nor adult. At 14 come spots. At 16 come boy friends. At 18 we worry because the boy friends vanish and the spots don’t.

At 21 comes the first real love — much more worry than it’s worth. 22 we worry because we are not married; at 24 we,worry because we are. The first baby brings its own "troubles, one of them being that Mrs So-and-so’s baby walks at one year and ours doesn’t. So we force the poor thing on to its legs and make bandy. that will be the baby’s worry

when it grows up. At 27 small wrinkles appear on our faces, and Ave immediately imagine that our husbands Avill now fly into the arms of a SAveet young thing. That should Avorry him, not us. At 30, poised and sophisticated though Ave may be, there is the niggling thought that Ave’re not as joung as avc used to be. If Ave are career Avomen aa t c knoAV that a change of job Avould do us good. But the Avorry of taking a chance holds us back and avc are too

young to die. The worry of missing trains and being late for important dates is always with ns. And the people who worry about what others think are too numerous to count. ' At 45 we worry about the children, through all their illnesses, exams., and whether they wfill have to fight a war when they grow up. We worry for them through all their calf-love affairs, just as we did when the affairs were our own.

At 60, when we should be settling into a nice retirement, we worry in ease we can’t leave enough money when we die.

And by the time avc are 80 avc are Avorrying because Ave don’t Avant to die yet, You disagree? Well, Avhy worry!