Did you know that if a pregnant mum is chilled and happy throughout her baby creating term, the baby emerges into the world with a calm and pretty laid-back disposition?
Case in point, Abraham from way yonder on the other side of the office has the most chilled baby on record. He slept through the night from 4 months old. Talk about AMAZING: “Yeah, my wife is sooooo relaxed. She’s like: “Ahhh it’ll be fine” about practically everything.”
In the same conversation, Abe told me about one of his mates from uni days. He walked relaxed, talked relaxed and was relaxed: “Yeah, I asked him how he stays so chilled. He said to me: “You gotta ask yourself two questions: Can you fix it? If you can, then you fix it. If you can’t? Well, then you just let it go!”
I nodded vigorously in agreement while Abe stared me in the eye with typical, very serious, analytical, managerial stern face: “Yeah, but Margie- it’s not that easy to let it go. How do we just switch off?”
And I was like: “Oh my gosh, you totally have to send him an email!” I encouraged: “Who cares if you haven’t seen him in five years! We need to know the Holy Grail of anti-anxiety and letting go!”
Abe finished off his delicious looking sandwich, laughed at the preposterousness of my idea, and wandered off back to his desk. Later, in typically diligent and highly informative Abraham style, he emailed me the source of the home truth: “Apparently, it’s a quote from the Dalai Lama: If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”
And that’s just the way it is 🙂
