Worry Warts Anonymous WWA

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hypochondriac

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Maybe you are good at reducing mountains into molehills. Im the opposite. I can turn a simple task into a moral dilemma or a philosophical thesis.
In fact when I was working as a disabled support worker, one colleague suggested I was not pragmatic enough for the job. And I wasnt offended. He was right. Many tasks in life require a practical mindset. No distractions. Just do it!
Worry warts are several in my family. Not good under pressure. Tend to think too much. Not that it makes us any more intelligent.
Ive got something on my mind now. Some future hypotheticals. Plus Im a hypochondriac. I fuss over my list of ailments.
I must be useful for something. Surely.
 

I'm a worry-wart, too. I can worry myself silly over the dumbest things.

I'm also a consummate "devil's advocate". I want to know WHAT CAN GO WRONG WITH THIS PLAN? before I get too involved in it. I don't like to wait until it DOES go wrong before I have to come up with a solution to fix it. It actually was an asset at my last job. People would say, "Go ask Jujube what she thinks could go wrong with this...." and I'd come up with a list to consider. Sometimes mental illness comes in handy, y'know?
 
jujube-your outlook is the only outlook. If something can be built it can be built wrong. I spent my working life interacting with companies all over the states and some in Canada. What I learned early on was one's idea of quality is no guarantee. To ignore the concept of "what can go wrong?" is tempting disaster. I have heard top managers say "We don't need QA because when we build it we build it right." America learned the hard way in the auto industry in the 70s when Japan flooded the states with quality built vehicles and only when the Big 3 saw their sales crashing did they respond. Worry warts are what keep us safe and supply us with items that actually work. Sadly, even today worry warts are seen as trouble makers for production oriented companies and are usually fired for pointing out potential problems.
 
I think it's a generational thing. Our generation tends to worry a lot more than our grandchildren do. Right now, for instance, my grandson and his girlfriend are galloping around all over Europe, and not on the strictly beaten path, either. (Ukraine, Croatia, etc. Although I think now they've made it to Copenhagen.)

Not a penny between them, but they managed to save up enough for this trip. (They are in their mid-20's.) They have confidence that they know where they are going, and don't worry every detail to death as I would have done. I think the millennials are wonderful!
 
you know i did consider becoming a Catholic priest once. but the thought of any of my family watching me "perform" was enough to turn me off.
 
Judycat said:
My husband was a don't-worry-about-it kind of guy. He often made an awful mess of things. It is good to have several options thought out before starting something.
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Yeah I feel ambivalent about overly relaxed optimistic people. I feel they haven't thought things through. that they are unprepared.
 
I tried watching some of those backwoods living shows on TV. I used to get so irritated when the guy on the snowmobile would say, "I hope I have enough gas to make it across the lake" because he was in a hurry to get going before it got dark, and the snowmobile runs out of gas half-way across. Then he has to walk back to the cabin, in the dark, to get more gas. Argh! That was my husband.
 
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