If you were any more Laid Back you'd be Horizontal! SBC16

Hello Hello to all Hivians, Silver Bloggers and anyone else reading this.

This week's The Silver Bloggers Chronicles - Prompt 16 is ....

Things I No Longer Worry About

So, what are some of the things you worried about, and how did you learn to throw them aside?

Not a Fluffing lot!

I remember my first proper job as a Chemical or Process Engineer was in Newbury, way down in the South of England. Miles away from my home in Scotland.

I was having my first performance review by the Process Engineering manager who was my boss's boss! A bit intimidating he was ....

So he opens with ...

Edward, if you were any more laid back you'd be horizontal. so what's your secret!!

Not that distances matter much to me. I went to university in Wales which was miles from Scotland. I stayed in Edinburgh when I was 11 and my parents and siblings moved to the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.
I went from being a day boy at school to a boarder at school.

Boy oh boy, you learn to grow up quick.

I learned to live in the now!

My only worry was whether I would get a hiding from the bigger boys. A 12 year old does not have much chance against a 17 year old! But if you go radge at them with a hockey stick, they see you in a different light 🤣

But seriously I remember one of my house tutors who was so fluffing cool.

On a weeknight after dinner we would all have to sit in silence in the downstairs library in the boarding house for two hours between 7pm and 9pm. This was to do our homework etc... On a Monday Wednesday and Friday night it was the house master who sat with us. He was super serious and pretty strict and we sat in on silence.

But on Tuesday and Thursday nights it was the turn of the house tutor a man called Mr Storey.

Now there was such a laid back atmosphere on those two nights. There was no shouting etc but people talked and we all got work done.

He respected us and we respected him, and he was like a counsellor to us all.

I remember a friend of mine was worrying about something, I can't even remember what it was now, but I do remember Mr Storey telling us some amazing words of wisdom!

"Now then Roderick, do you know what worry is?"

"Eh no sir, but it's doing my head in!"

"Well Roderick, worry is just a poor use of your imagination."

"What do you mean Mr Storey?"

"Why spend your precious mental energy making up worst-case scenarios when that same energy could be used positively? Don't use your mental energy negatively, use it to appreciate the ordinary moments happening around you right now!"

I guess I took that onboard albeit subconsciously as I have lived in the now for as long as I can remember!

As for keeping up with the Joneses! Haha you know that is such a common surname in Wales that yeah I had my fair share of them when I was there at uni, never needed to keep up with them lol!

Now then you might be wondering why I put a lead image of a Golden Retriever on my chronicles post!

Well Mr Storey had the most gorgeous Golden Retriever called Toby. As our boarding house backed onto the school playing fields. We were forever playing with him which was cool, except when the wee bugger ran off with our tennis balls🤣