Worry/Hope

[rva_jeremy]

There's a part of the Chödrön book I keep talking about that discusses this directly.  She says hope and fear (worry is a kind of fear) are two sides of the same coin:

The word in Tibetan for hope is rewa; the word for fear is dokpa. More commonly, the word re-dok is used, which combines the two. Hope and fear is a feeling with two sides. As long as there is one, there is always the other. This re-dok is the root of our pain. In the world of hope and fear, we always have to change the channel, change the temperature, change the music, because something is getting uneasy, something is getting restless, something is beginning to hurt, and we keep looking for alternatives.

This ties directly in with the points about expectations and acceptance, as ably pointed out by the previous two otherselves.  But I think you'd have your interest piqued by the whole book, which you can find online here.