Stress has no cure

When monarchs fail to fight off the tyranny of stress, what are commoners? In the case of kings, it is authority that’s responsible for the stress (uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, wrote William Shakespeare).

In commoners’ cases, the reasons change, but never the torment of stress.

A plight that drives thousands to doctors and counsellors.

The child keeps worrying about toys, the parents about the child; the teen about his future; the adult about his success; the successful about consolidating it and the failed about recovery. We will run out of words, but not aspects of life being smothered by stress. A plight that drives thousands to doctors and counsellors. 

Sheer years, happy and painful, left one message with me and that was enjoy as much as you can when you get a chance because stress is perpetually waiting in the wings looking for a crack to slip in.

The message became my unfailing lodestar. 

Without meaning to be preachy, permit me to share how I have been heading off the ferocious presence of stress. I try my best to avoid chronic grumblers, avoid moralising, avoid belittling emotions and make room up to a point for deliberately insulting assaults. I ignore, not hate, people I don’t like, which flows from my belief ‘live and let live.’

What worked, at least in my case, isn’t tablets but being friends with like-minded people. There is no need to try out different types of people because there is very little time and life has to be lived.

I befriended people with a sense of humour for laughter is without doubt an irreplaceable breather that life offers for free. Most other things on its menu have a price tag. 

Let’s not break our heads over stress because it has no cure. And because it is that we must work hard on palliatives.