WORRY
Illustration★★★★Once there was a handsome grandfather clock that became preoccupied with worry. It began thinking about the number of times it would have to tick: 2 times each second, 120 times per minute, 7,200 times an hour, 172,800 times a day, 63,072,000 times a year. When it realized that in the next ten years it would have to tick 630,720,000 times, it had a nervous break- down. The clock went to a watchmaker for therapy. While under the watchmaker’s care, the clock began to realize that all it needed to do was to tick one tick at a time. Soon thereafter it began to tick again, and continued ticking—one tick at a time—for one hundred years. Everyone loved that old grandfather clock.
The point
A grandfather clock nearly suffered a nervous breakdown calculating all the ticks it would make, finding healing when it realized it only needs to tick one tick at a time.