Last week I had my "wobble" about University and today I was talking to my Friend Mike, who is having a tough time at work, so is having "his wobble" today!, and whilst on my 10.30 walk with the kids tonight got to thinking about how awful it is to worry about a problem that never seems to go away. Now most of us do not suffer this exaggeration from the norm! ...we have a problem, worry about it for a while then hopefully ( with the help of family, friends and the odd psychologist) we get over it! True that ice cold, overwhelming panic that can take you over is awful ( especially when it often occurs at 4.30 am) but it passes!! Having a chronic endogenous anxiety state must be the most debilitating condition, as it often never really goes away!
Anyhow that 4.30 am anxiety attack that we all Suffer from sometimes got me thinking of Everything and the Girl, and especially their song entitled We walk the same line!
Everything But The Girl - We Walk The Same Line
If you loose your faith, babe, you can have mine,
and if you're lost I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
Now I don't have to tell you
how slow the night can go,
I know you've watched for the light.
And I bet you could tell me
how slowly four follows three,
and you're most forlorn just before dawn.
So if you loose your faith babe,
you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
And I don't need reminding how loud the phone can ring
when you're waiting for news.
And that big old moon lights every corner of the room.
Your back aches from lying and your head aches from crying.
So if you loose your faith babe,you can have mine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
When it's dark baby,there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost, I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
And if these troubles should vanish like rain on midday,
well I've no doubt there'll be more.
And we can't run and we can't cheat,
cause babe when we meet
what we're afraid of,
we find out what we're made of.
So if you loose your faith babe,you can have mine,
and if you're lost,
I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line.
When it's dark baby,
there's a light I'll shine,
and if you're lost,
I'm right behind,
cause we walk the same line
I think that It is a lovely song,that tells the story of support from a loved one when you are out of control. The highlighted text, captures exactly that panicky cold feeling I mentioned before!
Well if that song helps you not, I always think that a film will , and my musings on tonight's walk came to that old chestnut My Best Friends Wedding. There is a scene in it when Julia Roberts becomes totally overwhelmed by the problems in her life. She is found sitting outside her hotel bedroom door by a friendly bellboy (Paul
Giamatti), He offers her a fag and a piece of advice, to help her deal with her woes .He repeats an old Jewish saying
"This too shall pass...................."
So Mike remember "This too will pass!!!"
The full version of this seems to be a Bible saying
The origin of the saying "this too shall pass" appears to date back to a story told about King Solomon. It is said that the King, feeling blue, asked his advisors to find him a ring he had seen in a dream. "When I feel satisfied I’m afraid that it won’t last. And when I don’t, I am afraid my sorrow will go on forever. Find me the ring that will ease my suffering." Eventually an advisor met an old jeweler who carved into a simple gold band the Hebrew inscription "gam zeh ya’avor" – "this too shall pass." When the king received his ring and read the inscription his sorrows turned to joy and his joy to sorrows, and then both gave way to equanimity. More recently the saying has been popularized in the West by spiritual leaders imported from or inspired by the East, including Ram Dass, the Dali Lama and Tich Nhat Hanh.
