Heart Advice

How to Kill Worry for Good

''As a kid, I was a worrier. I worried about everything my wild and fearful imagination could think of. My grandmother often tried to calm me by telling me stories of the time in her life when she too suffered from endless worry. This always came as a surprise, because my grandmother had the most cheerful outlook on life of anyone I knew. She said she owed it to her doctor who had listened to her ailments and devised a simple treatment plan. Wake up early, he had advised her, milk the cows, separate the wheat from the chaff and gather the mangoes from high up in the trees.

As a kid, I wondered whether the doctor was a hoax. Today, I believe he was a man of great wisdom...''

by Homaira Kabir