THE NEEDLESSNESS AND USELESSNESS OF WORRY Of all the mental occupations fallen into, invented, or discovered by man, the most needless, futile, and useless of all is the occupation of worry.

We have heard it said often, when one was speaking of another's work, or something he had done: "He ought to be in a better business." So, _in every case_, can it be said of the worrier: He's in a bad business; a business that ought not to exist, one without a single redeeming feature.

If for no other reason the fact implied by the title of this chapter ought to be sufficient to condemn it.

Worry is needless, useless, futile, of none effect.

Why push a heavy rock up a mountain side merely to have it roll down again?
Yet one might find good in the physical development that came from this needless uphill work.