Google the word Stress you will find 530,000,000 results. Google the word Happiness you will find 274,000,000 results. Are we that much more stressed than happy? Or do we just need more help dealing with our stress than our happiness? We know when we are happy right? I mean we don’t need to search for Symptoms of Happiness. Try it…you’ll find it right there between Symptoms of HAPE and Symptoms of Hepatitis with a whopping 20,300,000 results compared to Symptoms of Stress with 91,500,000 results. Although Symptoms of Hepatitis only has 14,800,000 results, which makes me feel a little better thinking that more people are happy than have Hepatitis!
How do we know when we are stressed? I mean aren’t we supposed to be stressed, aren’t our lives completely worthless if we aren’t doing 300 things at once? I once was at a meeting for my daughters’ soccer club, it is a volunteer organization, and the woman who runs it was trying to get more people to volunteer. She gave a speech on how she works two jobs, has a family and also finds time to volunteer. She sometimes only gets 3 hours of sleep at night. Ok and this is your selling point how? I don’t know her whole story as to why she works two jobs and I know she is volunteering “for the kids”, but don’t try to guilt me into your hectic lifestyle. I can stress myself out all on my own thank you.
I think people search the internet for clues on how to get rid of their stress, and there are MANY companies who will try to sell special "elixirs" that will remove all of their stress, or an anti-stress pill. I think people do not search the internet to find out how awesome it is to be happy, because there's nothing wrong if they are already happy. They're probably not even on the internet, they're out enjoying life ;)
ReplyDeleteI think even if you rid yourself of all stress (impossible), you aren't necessarily happy... Some amount of stress is normal and necessary in my opinion. If you have zero stress, you are probably high on pot ;)