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"In my life," said a woman, "I have worried much, but never have I worried about the right thing or the right situation. The thing to worry about always turned out something different from what I spent my energy upon. One day this view of the worry question occurred forcibly to my mind, and the ridiculous waste of time and strength appalled me. I have never had a worry since."
Another woman whom I know came to a realization of the same truth a few years ago in much the same way. She worried all the time about something-and there is always a Something to be worried about if we give way to it. She found one day that this habit of crossing a bridge before she came to it-and perhaps it would never be come up to-was making her old before her time. She realized suddenly that she was living at a tremendously high tension-that she was in a perpetual hurry-that she could no longer enjoy a good play or a good book or a good concert without a guilty look every now and then at her watch-that she could not even ride in a horse-car without bracing herself, as if by that she could propel the thing and reach her destination sooner.