Quit Worrying

I’m fixing to quit worrying.

Most of the things we worry about never happen, so I’m going to free my mind from all worrisome things.

I remember worrying that I would never get out of high school, but I did; that I would never get out of the U.S. Army, but I did; and that I would never be able to retire, but I was.

I’m definitely not going to worry about how I’m going to get out of this old world, because I have a feeling I already have a ticket just waiting to be punched.

We worry about what actually happened yesterday and about what might happen tomorrow, when the only thing we need to be concerned with is the present.

Yesterday is old news, dead and gone, and what’s going to happen tomorrow is unknown and unpredictable. But the present is a gift, and that’s why it’s called “the present.”

Live in it, love in it, revel in it, and treat it with reverence because it will soon be the past, however, the good news is that more of it lies ahead in the future.

It doesn’t come wrapped in pretty paper with a ribbon on it or anything like that, but it does come, it comes everyday for all of us, the gift known as “the present.”

I remember wondering about tomorrow and grieving over the past, but no more. From now on I’m going to take “the present” and make the most of it. I believe we can do that if we just remember the five simple rules to being happy:

Free your heart from hatred, free your mind from worries, appreciate what you have, give more and expect less.

I’m fixing to unwrap “my present” early.