Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Feeling anxious? Too bad

Its been a bit slow. No thats not quite true. Its always a bit slow for me. Everyone else seems to get quite stressed about things. Some people even get stressed about everything. Apparently stress isn't even the right word - it all comes from the magic thing otherwise known as anxiety.

An analytical approach to this would suggest that people get stressed because things which are 'important' in their lives have a significant amount of influence. For some, important things will range from the breakfast they have in the morning to the way they tie their shoes. If you're anything like this, maybe having anxiety attacks is quite a common occurance for you. Maybe you spend a large part of your life crying youself to sleep because your significant other started smoking (for those of you whre this is true, find a non-smoker). Ironically, these are usually the kinds of people that say they can't handle so much stress.

Others are a little more reasonable. They understand that theres only so much time in a day, and they need to prioritise those things which are really important. So its only when these kind of things have problems (like you don't have enough money for rent) that they get a little stressed. Maybe you'll lose your job if you don't get that report on the desk in the morning.

Then theres the other extreme. Nothing really means all that much. They realise that not only are a lot of things quite trivial, they can see that theres another way to do something. Its not the end of the world if you lose your job. Pick yourself up and plod along some more. It sounds like they're a little depressed most of the time. Or maybe they've just discovered the secret for themselves.

Take a chill pill.

2 comments:

hwangus said...

I want one of them chill pills.

viking_mistresses said...

well you're definately not the first type ali, so which of the latter two categories do you fall under?

now do we know anyone who falls under the first category? hmm?? hmm???