Chapter 15 Worries

Once upon a time in the state of Qi, there was a timid and somewhat nervous person who often thought of some strange questions, which made people feel inexplicable. One day, after supper, he took a big cattail fan, sat in front of the door to measure the distance, and said to himself: "If one day, the sky falls, what should we do? Wouldn't we have nowhere to escape, and we would be crushed to death alive, wouldn't that be too unfair?" From then on, he worried and troubled about this problem almost every day. Seeing that he was in a trance all day long and his face was haggard, his friends were very worried for him. However, when everyone knew the reason, they all came to persuade him:

"Brother! Why do you bother yourself about this matter? How could the sky fall down? I mean, even if it does fall down, it can't be solved by worrying and worrying alone. Think about it!" However, no matter what people said, he didn't believe it, and still worried about this unnecessary problem from time to time. Based on the above story, later people extended it into the idiom "alarmist worries". Its main significance is to wake people up not to be worried about some unrealistic things.It has roughly the same meaning as "too much trouble."