The Best Antidote For Worry

 The only son of a mother had died on the war front. World War Ⅱ was then raging and matters had to be done with speed. A neighbor was informed and requested to convey the distressing news to the mother.
  The neighbor gathered a few friends and went over to her house. She was on her hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor. The man said quietly, "I have something very sad to tell you." Then he paused. "Bill has been killed in France."
   The mother hesitated just for a moment, then the brush continued going around and around. Finally, she said, " Well, all of you sit down, won't you please? I'll make you a cup of tea."
   They protested, but she insisted. "Please", she said "I want to make you some tea! I feel like  doing it." And she chatted as she boiled the water, brought out some cakes, arranged the tea, and sat down with the callers.
    A long time after the mourning period was over, her neighbor said to her, "I have always admired you for the way you took the news of your boy's death. But I have never been able to understand it."
   "Well," she said, "my grandmother once told me, "Whenever you get any distressing news, don't stop your work. Whatever you are supposed to be doing at that moment, you should continue to do."

   The implication of this story: The best antidote for worry and anxiety is work.