AIR-CLINIC WRITING CONTEST: STOP STRESSING YOURSELF OUT!!
Stress more often than not is a construct of the mind. This is not always the case of course. When we are physically injured, our body may be under stress as the other muscles surrounding the injured limb, work harder than usual to compensate for the ailment, and our bodies work hard to repair the damage. This stress exists, and our nervous system feeds signals to our brain to tell us of the pain or discomfort.
However, the stress which most of us associate with is in our minds. This may be the stress of something which may happen, or something which has already happened. The thing that may happen, might never happen, and worrying about it certainly wont make things any better. The thing which has happened already is history now, so unless you have a DeLorean, a flux capaitor and Michael J Fox on speed dial, you ain't changing a thing, my friend. So, like the "Frozen" song which is forever etched in head says: "let it go, let it go, dee-dee-dee, dee-dee, dee-dee-dee!"
To be fair though, I think as a society, we need to just take a breather. We are completely over-stimulated whereever we go:
Buy this
Eat that
Lose weight
Sue them
Win this
It is an endless bombardment from the billboard to the bouncing airwaves of the television and radio and it is relentless. Would'nt it be nice to take a break from the bombardment?
Good luck with that!!
That little lump of metal in your pocket is worst of all! The bombardment now follows us to bed, to the toilet (some people anyways!), to the kitchen table, to the pub, while crossing the road!! Hold on, hold on, while crossing the road!? Yes, I've seen it - people with their head stuck in their phone while crossing a busy road. Scary but true! This generation has a serious addiction to technology, and I think it is actually contributes to the stress of the mind.
So do me a favour put down the phone, and stop stressing about yesterday and tomorrow!
Live in the now
(This is 350 words long exactly, not including this text)
This was an entry into a contest run by Air-clinic
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