Tick, Tock!
Story★★★★Dr. Eugene Bartlett’s friends will recall his illustration of the wisdom of living daily, not carrying now all the anxieties of the future. He tells of a grandfather clock that began to worry about all the demands of time keeping and tick-tocking for so many days and years. With one tick-tock each second, 120 sounds would be required each minute.
This would mount up to the need of making 7,200 sounds every hour or a total of 172,800 every day. But the worrying clock figured this would mean the making of 63,000,000 sounds each year and to run for ten years would mean 630,000,000.
But since a good grandfather clock is supposed to run for many decades, the clock asked in consternation how many countless billions of tick-tocks must be made? Trying to figure that one out for a whole lifetime sent the clock into a swoon where it lay unconscious. When it finally revived, an optimistic thought flashed into its mind.
At the present moment, it had to make only one tick-tock. How simple that was! So it began making just one tick-tock and left all the countless billions of tick-tocks to the future when they would be needed.
The clock did not need to worry about them. So the clock drew a deep breath and went along merrily tick-tocking. At last reports, it had told time for three family generations and was still tick-tocking after more than a hundred years.
The point
A grandfather clock worried about billions of tick-tocks it must make yearly/lifetime; then realized it only needs to make ONE at a time—teaching present-moment trust.