#worry — Public Fediverse posts

Insomnia Ad Nauseum

here i am 
again
losing sleep
worry my
companion
reading 
news of
tragedy 
in a vain
attempt 
to grow so 
exhausted
that i 
drop off
when 
prayer
should be 
my only 
friend

August 17, 2015

Worry Wart

The troubles of this passing day
weigh heavy on my head,
until I join the hollow-eyed,
the weary walking dead;
I stumble through the crumbling streets
where nameless fears are bred,
consumed by temoral things
and this mortal dread.

O, that this wart of worry
might be lifted from my head,
this small, persistent torment
on which my fears are fed;
that I might cease rehearsing
each bitter word unsaid,
and stop imagining sorrows
still waiting up ahead.

O, let me quit resisting
the road where I am led,
and trust the ground beneath me
though shadows o'er me spread,
for life is more than trembling
before the things I dread—
perhaps the path I fear to walk
leads to trust instead.

August 8, 2015 (exp. 2026)

It's like He tells that you're sitting in a #restaurant with your pocket filled with lots of #money and the owner shouts that anybody that does not have money must leave the restaurant and cannot eat. And you begin to #worry because you forgot that you're you. The only #currency you need. 3/

Ordered cashews but received psyllium husk. Don't know what the world is trying to tell us. 😟

#worry #e_commerce #life

A quotation from Horace

There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
 
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/

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A quotation from Salman Rushdie

The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768…

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A quotation from Shakespeare

TOBY: I am sure care’s an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 2ff (1.3.2-3) (1601)

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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-06), “Farm Policy,” National Plowing Contest, Kasson, Minnesota

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: I say that mortals who have no experience
   Of and have never had children
   Have a better chance for happiness
   Than those who bear them.
 
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
   πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν
   παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
   τῶν γειναμένων.

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1090ff (431 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84588/

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A quotation from Josh Billings

I am allwuss more than haff afraid ov the man, who kant talk 5 minnitts with me, on enny subjekt, without expressing grate anxiety about my soul.
 
[I am always more than half afraid of the man who can’t talk five minutes with me, on any subject, without expressing great anxiety about my soul.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-07 (1876 ed.)

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, [the modern man] is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC Radio

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Donut Worry

Dingus is keeping his eye on the donut, and not on the hole.

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I have officially pivoted from "will I make my flight" (I have never once come even close to missing a non-connecting flight, lmfao) to "how long will this prepacked deli sandwich I bought in the terminal be safe to eat"

Sometimes I wonder what it's like not to suffer from constant #anxiety / #worry / #paranoia. Sounds fucking great tbh.

#worry #dog #brain #bone #gnaws

Studio is a terminal mess. Found a box with drawings, forgotten for years, under a table... #anxiety #worry #worrying #worrier

#worry : to harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety

- French: s'inquiéter

- German: die Sorge

- Italian: preoccupazione

- Portuguese: preocupação

- Spanish: preocupación

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Donut Worry

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