Thursday, May 7, 2015

May 6, 2015

The Advantage of Worry

My college friends and I
discovered a grapevine in the woods
which sailed out over a small ravine.
We called it Vinny.
We had a blast for several days.
But it broke.
The friend who was on it at the time
jumped off before it went over the high part.
We went to another friend who knew about Vinny
and with sober faces told her that Vinny was dead.
Her face equally serious,
she asked us who we were talking about.
When we told her, she was relieved
it wasn’t one of her classmates named Vincent.
Maybe worry does have one positive effect.
When you learn it’s not as bad as imagined
it’s such a relief. 

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