Friday, September 5, 2014

          Worries kill more Men than Wars ! 


                                                                                  1             18/3/14
             We  hardly observe the patients around us , particularly when we visit our  sick relatives kept  in the Hospitals, the patients in the wards around, the patients who comr to consult the doctors for their illness. Worry, anxiety are silent killers , diabetes and high B.P. come next. Have you ever seen a man of  75 Kg weight, losing 17 Kgs  within a short span of time ? Not for luxury or for reducing weight but by remaining under constant terror of worry and anxiety ?
          Carnegie has adduced a case of one  Ted Bengermino of Baltimore , Maryland, USA . He went on worrying so intensely that he lost 17 Kgs  weight , was reduced to skin and bones He went on worrying about the course of the war, his family,the hardships of other soldiers etc. Ultimately he was shifted to Army Hospital , studying his case, the doctor said: “ I want you to think of your life  as an hour glass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top  of the hour glass and they pass slowly and evenly ythrough the narrow neck in the middle.You or I cannot make  more than one grain  of sand pass  through thius narrow neck  without damaging the hour glass. You , and I  and all others are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning  there are hundreds of tasks  , which we feel, we must accomplish before the day is over, but if we do not take one ( task)  at a time  and let them pass through slowly and evenly , as do the grains of sand, passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure. “
           Then let us learn a lesson from above case , and that should be, “ One grain of sand at a time , one task at a time “
           Many great men and thinkers have  expressed important ideas  on such cases:
       “ When I look back on all these worries,I remember the story of  the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,  of which never happened. “---  Winston Churchill, Wartime Prime Minister of England


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