Dealing with Panic

~ Gottfried

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. There is no panic like trying to press “end call” when you accidentally dial someone. 

I think I’m prone to panic. Now that I’m advanced in age, I’ve come to a realization. I have known many troubles but most of them never actually happened. Sometimes I panic and think there’s a crazy person in my house, then I realize it’s just me. Then I panic again.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. There cannot be a crisis this week. My schedule is already full. You’re either in constant panic worrying about every single detail or you surrender to “it is what it is”Always choose the latter. 

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening. If you’re married, it becomes two as she can hear you mutter under your breath. Panic attacks are just fun little reminders that every decision you’ve ever made has been wrong. Especially her. 

Our phones fall, we panic. Our friends fall and cry, we laugh. This one time I attempted to roll over on my bed and suddenly heard a crack. I found myself hoping it was a fractured bone and not the new iphone I had just got. The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere. Don’t assume a person is weak because they get panic attacks. It takes a lot of effort to get out of bed every day to face the world. And not all wounds are visible. Some people are cracked.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

26 thoughts on “Dealing with Panic”

  4. Dear Lord “The Day The Dollar Died”

    And the Banks Failed Way Back in

    1929 Those in the Stock Market

    Jumped to Their Death
    Having Panic Attacks

    Indeed Mr Gottfried

    From Sky Scrapers

    to Scraped off the Roads

    my Great Uncle Who Lived Through
    It Kept “Soylent Green Dollar Bills
    And More” Stuffed in His Light Fixtures

    In His Cabin On the Beach In His Mattresses

    Too for
    Another
    Rainy Day
    For A Soylent
    Green Crash

    Yet It’s True He
    Couldn’t Eat Money

    Particularly Obsolete

    Lincoln Pennies No Longer

    Welcome at Grocery Stores Today

    Hehe Elon Musk
    Suggests Don’t
    Save a Damned Dime

    For Retirement Promising
    Free Space Rides “to Serve Man”

    Dear Lord of Cold and Hot
    Rocks to Mars no Less

    Don’t Believe a

    Damned Thing He
    Says For He May

    Find Another Source
    of Food For Mars

    Nope It
    Won’t
    Be a
    Dollar Bill…

    Dam Is this the
    ‘Twilight Zone’ or What hehe

    “God Damned Dirty Apes”

    “They Really Did It”

    So ‘Orwellian’
    Don’t Let ’em
    Do “Animal Farm” Again..:)

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      1. “Animal farm is such a classic!”

        Hehe indeed Mr Gottfried
        And ‘1984” Seems Recent
        Like Yesterday Even Today

        For
        Some
        Of US

        As Always
        Keep Our
        Head Down

        In “Rome”
        And “Bowl
        Alone” A League

        Apart From
        Group
        Double
        Speak
        In Echo
        Chambers

        Indeed

        Even Celebrate
        As Long As Out Peace

        Lasts “Life Moves Pretty
        Fast” Too Many Folks

        Look Forward To
        After A Dirt Nap

        More

        Than Before
        The Dirt Nap
        The Distance
        Of Our Born on Date

        Keeping my Shelf-Life

        Fresh
        And
        Free THiS WaY
        🤡🙌🌈💫🎉

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  7. “Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere. Don’t assume a person is weak because they get panic attacks. It takes a lot of effort to get out of bed every day to face the world. And not all wounds are visible. Some people are cracked.” This may be my favorite one ever.

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