I look at my hands,
their backs an old man’s hands.
I look at my feet,
their toes an old man’s toes.
I look at my face,
its wrinkles show an old man’s face.
But,
I look in my mind,
its curiosity is a young man’s still.
Tag: anxiety
Smell the roses
You spend your early life doing things for the first time. You spend your late life doing things for the last time. In between you do a whole lot of things without really noticing. Sadly.
Abracadabra
The trick in dealing with anxiety is to forget the evils of the past, and not to fret about the perils of the future, while living entirely in the present. The problem is finding out the secret of how the trick is done.
Time’s Up
Life is like an exam in which you struggle to write as much as possible, pack as much into each answer as possible, until the moment when the teacher says “Time’s Up”, and you stop, reluctantly, seeing, on the exam paper, gaps where you could have, should have, said more, places where, gulp, you have expressed something badly, or just plain wrongly, places where you know, just know, if you had a little more time, you could have impressed the examiner with your brilliance. But the clock has stopped, and all you can do is hand in your paper at the teacher’s desk before exiting with the crowd. If only you could have written faster.
End of High School photos, 1961
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Your time starts now…
Life is an exam paper with a series of questions. For some people the questions get easier towards the end, for others harder. You have to mark your own paper, there is no examiner. Pass mark is 50%, and no-one has ever scored 100%. Good luck.
Consequently
For the anxiety sufferer, a timetable or schedule, the stuff of everyday life in the workplace, therefore become the stuff of nightmares.
Usually both
Anxiety means that every action you need to take during the day is either a concern or a challenge.
Pass mark
I used to enjoy watching the Passing Parade. Now I dread watching the Passing Out and the Passing On.
Butterfly dreaming
Is this symptom I have an illness masquerading as an anxiety attack, or an anxiety attack masquerading as an illness?
