Want To Worry? ... Read Your Newspaper!

Actually it started last month and now it is again that hallowed time of the year. It's the time we all look forward to every year with such great anticipation...

It's time to start worrying about the Christmas Shopping Season.

Did you notice how your blood pressure started to rise as you read “Christmas Shopping Season”? It is quite possible your ears actually moved at the tantalizing news that jumped into your brain through your ear holes.

The bad news is they started demanding that we worry about the Christmas Shopping Season on September 17. This is rather early, is it not? I find that quite depressing and distracting because I have my own Worry Agenda that I prefer to concern myself with...

• Football games.
• Those big wasps like bugs that are digging all those holes in my lawn and dragging cicadas in and munching on them.
• Why it is I keep installing computer thingies into my computer that say they can be set up in “Three Easy Steps” but don’t install in three easy steps? What I really worry about is why I continue to believe they will install in three easy steps. Will I ever learn? What’s wrong with me? Am I starting to lose it?

In case you missed the article itself, here is the opening paragraph of the Christmas Worry Season Article in my newspaper...

“An early forecast predicts the holiday-shopping season will be the worse since 2009.”

Then only two paragraphs later I am told that my worrying about what the first paragraph told me to worry about may be unnecessary worry...

“Early forecasts are often well off the mark.”

That does it! I am swearing off things that I am told I should worry about. I am going back to my own personal worry stuff (football, cicadas being munched on under my lawn and computer installation lying).

There I feel better... Or do I?

We all know that worry can ward off future dire consequences... Or does it?

Now I am worried that if I don’t worry about things that I should worry about will it result in awful dire consequences?

Boy I am glad this bit of Foolishness is over! Now where was I? I must have been doing something important... Or was I?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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