Worries are like rocks and in that, they come in all types and sizes. You can create little pebble size up to boulder size worries. It doesn’t matter what size sooner or later they are going to weigh you down.
Carrying around these rocks is like Sisyphus pushing that rock uphill. Once you stop and rest a moment from worry you have to do it all over again.
Remember Sisyphus who had to push that boulder uphill only to have it row back down and push it again. This is how worry works.
It was Sisyphus’s punishment.
Sisyphus Rolling Rock Up to Hill
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We do not have to punish ourselves in a similar manner. In fact, if we quit with the rocks we can remain calm and happy more often.
The worry cycle
Meditation can help get you out of the worry cycle. However, other people will have you looking at more things to worry about.
Being a visual person I came up with this concept of worries being like rocks. And the bigger they are the more stress, the more stress the bigger the rock.
If you hold on to them it weighs you down and creates stress, which can kill you and may end up sitting on your grave.
From my recent cemetery photo shoot using the Canon Rebel
Someone who did not give up pushing the boulder
Gift rocks
If someone offers you a big rock refuse it they are looking for company. And you know the old adage, “Misery loves company.”
Have you ever noticed you start feeling pretty good about everything and someone shows up and tells you why things are not so good?
This happens in relationships with friends, families, and significant others. As a matter of fact, it can happen in public with people you don’t even know.
Someone negative shows up in your life with lots of problems and wants to hand those to you. You have a choice. We all do.
Consider those “not so good” things their rocks and they are being offered to you to carry around. Sometimes especially in close relationships they might just give you their rock and refuse to pick up any more. The situation or mindset is on you by yourself.
Refuse to accept them
Since I invented thinking about worries in this way I refuse to accept others rocks, in this case, my husband’s boulder. He came home with a huge boulder he wanted to share with me. I told him to take that rock and keep it. I am here for him but not his boulders.
Drop your rocks now
I started thinking like this on my own a few days ago and it is becoming a real game changer for me so I thought I would share it with you. I am offering you an opportunity to also drop your rocks and enjoy life.
Good Attitude
Keeping a good attitude lets others know you are not a rock carrier.
I wrote this for me but felt like posting it.
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