These are hard times to work on becoming a bit more emotionally mature. Worrying about the economy and worrying about the size of our behinds at the same time–this is not easy. There’s only so much time in a day.
“Life isn’t worth living if you don’t take it seriously. Life isn’t worth living if you only take it seriously.” So here we are, stuck worrying about not taking in enough money and taking in too much food. Somebody’s got to start laughing. I nominate you. If an ADDICTION is anything we can’t stop doing, even when it’s become self-destructive…WORRYING fits the bill. 
Downward changes in the economy and upward changes in the average weight of a teenager–are facts. And it’s a fact we NEED to WORRY, right? It’s our duty as Americans to worry about the economy. It’s our duty as women to be worried about what we eat.
The EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM says, “We have to worry. We have to worry all the time because… if we are not deadly seriously fretting about these facts every second of everyday, the bad money news and the fat cells will sneak up on us… and wham! We’ll wake up tomorrow weighing four hundred pounds and living under a bridge!
The EGS is the inventor of the phrase DEADLY SERIOUS. . . .DEADLY.
The THINKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM says, “If there’s something you can do about it, and you want to do that something (get a second job, lose weight)…then do it. If there isn’t anything you can do, or you choose not to do anything at this time…get off it.” 
Grin. Play. You might get a response that you’re not taking the situation seriously enough. Which means . . . heh. . . .heh . . . it’s working.
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