He can group them together to save time and energy. For example, he can worry about the virus and the planet simultaneously because they are interconnected.
Everybody has a worry box. Everybody’s worry box is whatever size it is, and it’s always full. So when you add a new worry, something falls out of the box. And when you get rid of one, something that you hadn’t been worrying about immediately takes up residence. I believe I got this from Patrick McManus… and it has informed my life ever since.
My father was a wise man. He always advised me, “Son, worry’s the price you pay for what doesn’t happen!” Great. But he never got to the First Corollary of that dictum, which is “Therefore worry!”
In life there are little worries and big worries. The little worries are usually things you can fix, like worrying about passing that exam. You know if you focus and study you can pass so you don’t need to worry about things like that because you can deal with them. The big worries, like the virus, global warming, etc. are huge problems, but there is little that you personally can do to solve as ultimately you know the solutions are beyond your personal ability to fix. Those worries waste your time worrying about them. So they aren’t worth worrying about. If you set aside your worries and fears you can accomplish anything. So stop worrying and get on with living the best life you can.
This is a new thing for Stephan. He has changed Pig’s personality a bit. In his own words, Pig needs to be the happy, positive one to balance out the darkness. This, once again, is very unlike Pig’s character.
Sometime in October 1962, I was eight years old and having my tonsils removed in a hospital. Mom was with me, but what I didn’t know is that Dad was with another Air Force airman in a bunker waiting for the President of the United States to issue an order to launch the nuclear missile in its silo at the Soviet Union. Look up “Cuban Missile Crisis” on Google if you lack a sense of history. While I was drinking apple juice and soothing my sore throat with ice cream in a hospital bed, my parents were worried that civilization was about to be buried in the ashes of an atomic war and that their only child, me, would have to live with the consequences. This too shall pass but only if we stop taking the news media and politicians seriously.
I’m kind of baffled that the climate change didn’t make Pig’s list. Because in the grand scale that one does the most damage: slower, but orders of magnitude more in the coming decades. In the end it will cost it will cost even more lives than Trumps criminal negligence of SARS-CoV-2.
I do not worry about what I can not control. I do not worry about what I can control, I control it. Worry, like jealousy, envy, hate, and so many other emotions is just toxic to the soul.
BE THIS GUY about 4 years ago
He can group them together to save time and energy. For example, he can worry about the virus and the planet simultaneously because they are interconnected.
BasilBruce about 4 years ago
I heard about this new anxiety on Dateline Gatilsday.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Whatever happened to the killer hornets, anyway?
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
a daily planner for various worries… wow
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Everybody has a worry box. Everybody’s worry box is whatever size it is, and it’s always full. So when you add a new worry, something falls out of the box. And when you get rid of one, something that you hadn’t been worrying about immediately takes up residence. I believe I got this from Patrick McManus… and it has informed my life ever since.
kaffekup about 4 years ago
My week must be fourteen days long.
Kind&Kinder about 4 years ago
“What…me worry?” Miss that whole “usual gang of idiots!”
Caldonia about 4 years ago
Pig’s got a job?Depressed writer is depressed episode #1006
jmarkoff2 about 4 years ago
Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday.
top cat james about 4 years ago
Posting the following with no comment:
“Peanuts” 2/23/60
LUCY: “Do you ever worry about the world getting blown up, Charlie Brown?”
CHARLIE BROWN: “It all depends…What day is today?”
LUCY: “Tuesday.”
CHARLIE BROWN: “Well, on Tuesdays I worry about personality problems…”
(cont.) “THURSDAY is my day for worrying about the world getting blown up!”
gopher gofer about 4 years ago
how’s he going to fit in worries about paying his credit card bills…?
dwane.scoty1 about 4 years ago
No Biggie, Pig! Just don’t let your Worry Box overflow into your Bucket List!
iggyman about 4 years ago
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me, Deep dark depression excessive misery” Song from old Hee Haw program!
Gent about 4 years ago
So, you never worry about becoming bacon, eh, Pig?
Zebrastripes about 4 years ago
Paranoia has PIG crazed! Rational thinking have left the building last Saturday….
Alexander the Good Enough about 4 years ago
My father was a wise man. He always advised me, “Son, worry’s the price you pay for what doesn’t happen!” Great. But he never got to the First Corollary of that dictum, which is “Therefore worry!”
theincrediblebulk about 4 years ago
In life there are little worries and big worries. The little worries are usually things you can fix, like worrying about passing that exam. You know if you focus and study you can pass so you don’t need to worry about things like that because you can deal with them. The big worries, like the virus, global warming, etc. are huge problems, but there is little that you personally can do to solve as ultimately you know the solutions are beyond your personal ability to fix. Those worries waste your time worrying about them. So they aren’t worth worrying about. If you set aside your worries and fears you can accomplish anything. So stop worrying and get on with living the best life you can.
SNVBD about 4 years ago
Why would you worry about losing your healthcare? Oh, right… USA… :-/
hariseldon59 about 4 years ago
I remember back in the ’70s when the killer bees were coming to kill us all.
Breadboard about 4 years ago
Alfred E. Newman ……. Croc Power !
Ellis97 about 4 years ago
Every day I worry about Trump being in office forever
Markov Da Robot about 4 years ago
Ok, what is the whole murder hornets thing? I’ve seen it in like 3 different strips, but don’t know what it really is.
Ksandler4570 about 4 years ago
This is a new thing for Stephan. He has changed Pig’s personality a bit. In his own words, Pig needs to be the happy, positive one to balance out the darkness. This, once again, is very unlike Pig’s character.
Sisyphos about 4 years ago
Pig is so organized! I really admire an organized worrier.
Yo, Pig! Can I delegate some of my worries to you?
rdav1248961 Premium Member about 4 years ago
I worry that Pastis has forgotten to be funny. We have too many worries. We need one of his convoluted puns instead.
uniquename about 4 years ago
According to George Carlin, pig could open Wed. The planet will be just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
b.john71 about 4 years ago
Pig needs Alfred E. Newman, or at least his attitude-works for me.
The Fly Hunter about 4 years ago
Most days I just worry about what I’m going to worry about….
Nyckname about 4 years ago
“The rule is jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”
PoodleGroomer about 4 years ago
Everybody forgets about the old school diseases. It is time to go to CVS and see what vaccines they have. I’m looking for flu, cholera, and ebola.
ksu71 about 4 years ago
Bobby says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
JudyAz about 4 years ago
“There are only two things to worry about:Either you are well or you are sick.
If you are sick,Then there are only two things to worry about:Either you will get well or you will die.
If you get well,Then there are only two things to worry about:Either you will go to heaven or hell.
If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.
But if you go to hell,You’ll be so damn busy shaking hands with friendsYou won’t have time to worry!"
~ Author Unknown ~
Skippy the Magnificent about 4 years ago
Stop watching CNN pig.
dadlivonia about 4 years ago
Not funny
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 4 years ago
Anyone else unhappy about Pig becoming a downer?
1953Baby about 4 years ago
The Merry Minuet, 2020 verse (original by the Kingston Trio in the 1960s). . .
the lost wizard about 4 years ago
Maybe a little therapy can help you get these worries better organized and you’ll also have a nice bill to pay.
tripwire45 about 4 years ago
Sometime in October 1962, I was eight years old and having my tonsils removed in a hospital. Mom was with me, but what I didn’t know is that Dad was with another Air Force airman in a bunker waiting for the President of the United States to issue an order to launch the nuclear missile in its silo at the Soviet Union. Look up “Cuban Missile Crisis” on Google if you lack a sense of history. While I was drinking apple juice and soothing my sore throat with ice cream in a hospital bed, my parents were worried that civilization was about to be buried in the ashes of an atomic war and that their only child, me, would have to live with the consequences. This too shall pass but only if we stop taking the news media and politicians seriously.
DCBakerEsq about 4 years ago
What, me worry?
phredturner about 4 years ago
He should just quit watching Fox News
Godfreydaniel about 4 years ago
Pig used to be Snoopy (more or less). Now he’s Charlie Brown (more or less). And where are the crocs of yesteryear?
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
bunrabbit99 about 4 years ago
exactly. spread out your schedule.
unfair.de about 4 years ago
I’m kind of baffled that the climate change didn’t make Pig’s list. Because in the grand scale that one does the most damage: slower, but orders of magnitude more in the coming decades. In the end it will cost it will cost even more lives than Trumps criminal negligence of SARS-CoV-2.
pchemcat about 4 years ago
I do not worry about what I can not control. I do not worry about what I can control, I control it. Worry, like jealousy, envy, hate, and so many other emotions is just toxic to the soul.
I_am a cat about 4 years ago
Why is this so true for me
jonesbeltone about 4 years ago
I worry about the liquor stores closing. That would be very,very bad. For me.
Bicycle Dude almost 4 years ago
Pig just summed up my life’s daily fears.
Ullvyk almost 4 years ago
I remember the old days when this comic was actually funny. Now? Feels like I am reading propaganda from the NYT.
Rokittman almost 4 years ago
Pigs back to spiraling!
No One in Particular over 2 years ago
Now, Pig, you can cram in one more: War in Ukraine.