Pencil in 30 minutes a day to wallow in your anxieties, study suggests
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from:msnbc.comScheduling 'worry time' may help you fret less
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Ohhhh - nobody has anything to worry about today.
Unfortunately, my "worry time" conflicts with my "beer time."
They are one in the same.
"Worry Time" is nothing more than a group of sociopaths trying to create larger groups of worry time for the individual.
To break the worries up do something that is not associated with worrying.
If you worry about changing your oil then do something like going fishing. Once you have caught a few fish you feel a sense of accomplishment and changing the oil wont be as worrying.
The only groups who want you to worry is the church. The more you worry and cannot find a way out of the worriness zone the more likely you will feel inclined to migrate towards the church to lay your worries upon him on the cross. This is nothing more than a ploy by the church to draw people to the church so the Conservatives and Religious Right Wing can take in more money for theirself so that they can live a worry free life while you have too saying that God has told them that you have to worry and they do not.
You know this is the setup for a pill they are gonna sell.
Oh, gee... now I'm worried that I might have set up the wrong worry time! I'm worrying that I might not have set up a long enough worry time. I'm worried I might not have enough to worry about in my worry time. What if I'm worrying about something else when my worry time comes up???
Pu-lease!! C'mon don't we have enough to worry about without having to worry about worry time? Let's get real!
I'm happy to announce that after hours of thoroughly examining your response, I found no errors... Other than the excessive usage of end punctuation marks and your nonchalant, yet rude mannerisms regarding the word "please," you wrote a mildly humorous article. Furthermore, let's try and keep slang off such a prestigious website. C'mon man, you're smarter than that, right?
(Socratic irony intended).
In addition to my ridiculous response, I would like to add three words:
AVARICE AVARICE AVARICE
Correction: mildly humorous article = mildly humorous response
OH, p-u-h-l-e-a-s-e!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you actually spend hours examining my response??????????? Who died and made you website monitor?? It sounds like you need to get a hobby or a life. You really should get off your holier-than-thou soapbox and find other thngs to do. You wanna talk rude mannerisms? How about this: you have no idea how my writing was intended and attempt to judge my writings without knowing a thing about me - your mannerisms are not only rude, they are downright ignorant, and while we're at it, how's this for the usage of end punctuation marks????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
In response to your AVARICE AVARICE AVARICE, I add my own three words:
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really like this. You brought fire and I approve.
However, you did contradict yourself when you told me to GET A LIFE. Going off of what you said, you have no idea how I live my life and how exciting or dull it may be!
ANDDDD... 99% of my response to you had a sarcastic tone, I'm glad I was able to get such a colorful response from you though! Keep it up Hood!!!
Nice touch on the punctuation marks!
True, I have no idea of how you live your life, but that wasn't the intent of my "GET A LIFE" statement anyway. I really don't care how you live your life, but it must be rather dull. By saying "GET A LIFE" I intended to convey to you the actual meaning of "GET A GRIP!!" , meaning there are more interesting things out there than trying to tell someone about their use of punctuation marks, or trying to come across as somewhat knowledgeable by the use of Socratic irony. I had no contradictions in my statement. I meant exactly what I said: GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was all SARCASM... so you GET A GRIP!
...and I am knowledgeable with the use of Socratic irony (or i wouldn't have used it). I used to be a Philosophy major, and the I realized that it would be a pointless degree.
My life is far from dull, but there is no point in changing your mind because you've already made it up, and it really doesn't matter!
And who is sending off the colorful response now? Additionally, looks like this time you brought fire. Sounds like you've lost your GRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Philosophy might be great in the classroom, but appears to have no objective use in the real world; how much time did you waste before you came to GRIPS with that?
If it really doesn't matter what I think, why did you address that point? Isn't that rather ironic?
Just one semester, but it resulted in me being two semesters behind for my current major.
This exchange has become boring.
Atleast we have finally agreed on something.
And without any avaricious avariciousness or avarice!
I'm glad that's settled. Are we all ready to be friends again?
Jack... I thought we established that the internet is no place to be nice! ...but yes...I'm ready to be friends again.
Hood was mean to me and he hurt my feelings :(
I understand. He hurt my feelings too. Excessive punctuation is downright offensive. The guy is a complete avarice.
What can people who are too stressed to even set aside the time on a calendar do?
This is very similar to what I do because when I feel overwhelmed with worries, I "compartmentalize" them, too. When I'm laying awake at night with worries running through my mind, I make a list stating each worry only very briefly. Then, holding the list in my hands, I pray, "Dear God, these are my worries that are overwhelming me. I give them to you to take charge of. Please guide me in all my actions that may deal with these worries because I am at a loss." Then I lay the list on my bedside table and, amazingly, I fall right to sleep! Additionally, my worries don't seem so bad in the morning.
So...let me get this right..you think that wasting 30 minutes per day worrying about something that has happened already, or something that hasn't happened yet. In the first case, it's already history, you can't change it. In the second case, it's the future, you can't foretell it. Ask yourself "what can I do about it right now" if you answer "nothing" then there is no good reason to worry. I say the prayer of Assisi:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference