How bad can it be?

Chapter 328

catastrophizing

I read this word recently and it describes people I know to a T. Everything is tainted by the worst possible scenarios, this just gets so boring and old, having to deal with their predictions of every potential disaster that will never happen. It was funny for the first 10,000 times, but now it is just plain ridiculous. We are tired of hearing about all the dangers that have a less than 0.001% chance of happening in the next 100 years. It reminds me of the tone they use on the national news cast each night. I no longer watch that, and haven’t since the Fall of 2007, but my dad does and I catch that tone immediately. It is high pitched and urgent and deadly and dangerous, as if what I am reporting on, will jump out of the tv and infect you immediately if you dare touch that remote to turn me off!

Folks, if this is what network news casts are built on, you surely can see that you don’t want to build your life on any of this posture. Hahahaha, as I sit here writing this, my dad is just a continuous stream of catastrophizing, across the table from me. Everything is wrong, difficult, broken, damaged, dangerous, and out to get you. Few things are good and awesome. And those require heroic effort to discover and enjoy. 

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live like that. There are more things that are good than bad in the world, and I can choose to live with that posture and not ascribe bad intentions to every person in the world. Will I get burned with that posture? For sure, and again! But in between the few burnings, is peace, relaxing, enjoyment, learning and humility.