Today I am doing others worrying for them. Like I always have done. I take on their worry and mull it over in my own mind, so they don't have to! lol Like that is even possible. I just feel so bad when others I love are hurting or worrying over something and there is nothing I can to help. I would say "I'll pray for you." and I would, but really I don't know if that works. - I know.. to most out there this sounds absurd, but I have a pretty jaded background with the church, so that is why I doubt. But that is a LONG post I will start on and post another day. I would say "It will all work out." But maybe it won't, I can't lie to them. I would say "Tomorrow will be better." But it might be worse. So I worry for them. It makes me feel better.
I just said it makes me feel better to worry! Gotta love how my mind works. Like I have said before I guess I am so friendly with my OCD I have become accepting and loving towards it. So weird. No one would say that, would they? But I do.
With that said I do see myself as a good problem solver, and a good advice giver. I just don't take my own advice! I would probably help them see the problem in a new light. A way they can twist the situation around without giving false hopes of life being all hunky dory. Funny how I do that. But it makes me feel better!
I always joke with my husband, who is laid back, "I worry so you don't have to."
ReplyDeleteI have found myself in that conversational predicament ..because saying "it will be ok" may not be true and I don't want them to think I am trivializing their situation either. I tell people I'll pray for them and usually I do or sometimes I will just say how sorry I am that they have this to go through. Most of the time they probably just need someone to listen and it sounds like you are supportive in that way.