I'm glad it helped! I remember the first time I heard it: I'd just lost my job. My wife was still full-time mom at home, we had all five of our kids in the house, the economy was garbage, I was in a backwater market with limited prospects, etc. Honestly, it was a comfort!
Any change in anything is now a reason for panic. Every red bump on one kids arm, one cough of a few adults, one person having a dizzy spell, and a new pandemic is in the make. It has been for quite some years. Zika, bird flu, you name it, the earth going into an ice age 50 years ago and into a heat 30 years ago... all quatch. As some old Greek (Heraclitos I think) said : nothing is for sure, namely that NOTHING is for sure, or something of that kind. Everything is constantly moving... may be not for the flat-earthers, but surely enough for us who believe the earth is moving round the sun and the whole shebang is moving through space.
During the Scamdemic, everybody around me was panicking. I wasn't panicking about that so much as hating the panicking and wishing it would all just go away. So I didn't have the problem that Rat has. Instead I had to find a good word for "the whole world panicking about nothing"; I haven't succeeded after six years.
They say that when a dolphin is worried, the other dolphins, moved by a sudden and extraordinary compassion, come near and start singing "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, and then the other worried dolphin is worried no more, for now he is angry, scared and feeling dolphincidal.
Relax, nothing is under control.
Thanks, dude, that makes me feel better.
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I'm glad it helped! I remember the first time I heard it: I'd just lost my job. My wife was still full-time mom at home, we had all five of our kids in the house, the economy was garbage, I was in a backwater market with limited prospects, etc. Honestly, it was a comfort!
Years ago, I became an avid adherent to the Alfred E. Neuman philosophy regarding worrying. Prescient he was.
I think the scientists call it "Rolling ones eyes."
Any change in anything is now a reason for panic. Every red bump on one kids arm, one cough of a few adults, one person having a dizzy spell, and a new pandemic is in the make. It has been for quite some years. Zika, bird flu, you name it, the earth going into an ice age 50 years ago and into a heat 30 years ago... all quatch. As some old Greek (Heraclitos I think) said : nothing is for sure, namely that NOTHING is for sure, or something of that kind. Everything is constantly moving... may be not for the flat-earthers, but surely enough for us who believe the earth is moving round the sun and the whole shebang is moving through space.
What iceberg? Relax . Plenty of time to panic.
During the Scamdemic, everybody around me was panicking. I wasn't panicking about that so much as hating the panicking and wishing it would all just go away. So I didn't have the problem that Rat has. Instead I had to find a good word for "the whole world panicking about nothing"; I haven't succeeded after six years.
I went with Dave Wise's solution for that. 🙄
They say that when a dolphin is worried, the other dolphins, moved by a sudden and extraordinary compassion, come near and start singing "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, and then the other worried dolphin is worried no more, for now he is angry, scared and feeling dolphincidal.
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