surrogate.worrier, invent.sunnier.habits
Everybody hates Chris. Well at least that’s how it appears on the face of it. Nearly everything Chris does is permeated by a sense of worry. Worry about what his parents will do to him when they discover his latest screw up; worry about his peers not accepting him, worry about holding onto his lunch money. Bullies aside though, it’s pretty clear that not everyone hates Chris; they just have funny ways of expressing their own worry. So in a sense, that translates to Chris worrying about everybody elses worry. Sound familiar? I know it does for me. I can be a pretty good worrier, who’s also pretty good at hiding it. “Let people say what they’re going to say because they are going to say it anyway”, was a bit of blow to my delusions of sovereignty, but it was good advice.
Almost as funny as Chris’ worrying is the British Humanist Association’s Atheist bus campaign, a secularist ad campaign worried about religous advertising that they felt made people… worry.
Much of western civilization is built on worry; anxiety is it’s morbid choice of fuel, and the organisation and structures powered by it are not about to change of their own accord. Thank God though, that whilst we may worry about our personal situations, He has and will continue to not worry, but act on our behalf. Whether it’s through a sun He’s invented to shine on everyone– everyday, or something He’s done once for everyone–everywhere, so that they need not worry everyday.
