What
makes you fearful or worry about a situation?
Some people worry about everything!
It’s often surprising that they can get anything done because of their
constant anxiety over so many details.
But there are many situations that make people worry and there are those
situations that bring a dreaded fear upon some people.
One of
the biggest areas that brings fear and worry to individuals and families is MONEY! They fear they are never going to have enough
or maybe they won’t have it at the specific time they need it. Of course, often the problem concerning money
is that people don’t have a realistic budget or maybe they don’t have one at
all! Others are extremely carless with
money. They take an attitude “if I have
it, I’ll spend it and then I’ll worry about getting more later!” Years ago I had a brother-in-law who got
himself into an extremely bad situation financially by not paying his
bills. His thinking was like this: “I owe creditor “A” $500 and I owe creditor
“B” $300. Today I only got paid
$250. Since I don’t have enough money to
pay either of them the balance of what I owe them, I’ll not pay either of
them anything! I’ll just have this money
for myself!” Needless to say that type
of thinking didn’t go over very well with ANY of his creditors!
And the
truly sad part of the fear of not having enough money doesn’t really end
there. When people have an abundance of
money they “UP” their style of living so that what they have continues to be
insufficient to cover what they now have to spend. Even when a person has, as the expression
goes, “more money than they know what to do with”, they worry that someone is
going to take it away from them, or cheat them out of it, or that the stock market
will crash, or a company will “fold-up” and their investment is gone, or
whatever other situation they can imagine in their minds. There may be some solid foundation to some of
their concerns but most often people create so many varying situations in their
minds that they can’t sleep at night because of the worry.
A
second area that has many people overly concerned is HEALTH! Now, let’s
start by my saying, I understand today there are many people suffering from one
affliction or another. And I am, by NO means, wanting to sound
like I’m making light of those who are dealing with such conditions. I am merely observing that often people
“focus” their time, efforts, finances, and other resources on their afflictions
(real or not) until they cannot function on a day-to-day basis. There used to be a word for that --- hypochondriac. I don’t know if they still use that word or
not. To give you an example I would like
to start by saying my family are Caucasians.
But when I was growing up, my Mother would hear a report on the evening
news about a “new” illness that was afflicting ONE percent of the MALE
pigmy population in Africa. The
next morning she would inform us that she was positive that she was
having the symptoms of the “new” disease they had mentioned the night before on
the news!!!
There
are some people who are going to worry about becoming sick to such a point,
they, in effect, make themselves sick from the worry. So not only are they in fear of losing what
portion of good health they have, but they will also increase their worries
because they’ll spend money on “cures” that only have the effect of depleting
their bank accounts and do NOTHING about the condition of their
health! And for those who COULD receive some help from
medications or medical services that are on the market, they CAN’T AFFORD to obtain them! Now this is one area that can really get me
thinking seriously. Aren’t
pharmaceutical companies (at least usually) set up as non-profit
organizations for research purposes?
They get huge grants from the government and from other companies and
even donated funds from individuals to pay for the research they do in
producing the products that they offer as remedies for various ailments? But when these products come to market, they
are made available at outlandish prices in an effort “to re-coupe their
research funds.” Why are they “recouping” funds that were freely given to them
to start with? It sounds like a money
scamming machine to me!
When
you listen to the news on the television or on the radio, every day there are
many new reasons to plant fear, anxiety, and worry into our minds. We will probably find, from a human
perspective, we will never find the solutions to all the problems we face
within ourselves. This must bring into
play another aspect of our human nature --- faith! Yet, faith is not the possession of all
people.
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Accidents happen to us all,
but PLAN not to have one."
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