By: Jules Sebastian
Have you ever bumped into someone who is so busy and stressed out that they can’t help but tell you all about it? Or, sometimes they don’t need to tell you all about it, it’s written all over their face and body. They are highly strung, can’t focus, are always rushing and just don’t have time for, well….anything.
Stress seems to be the new way of life for a lot of us. It’s almost like, if we are stressed, we are kicking goals. The more on our plates, the better we are as humans…or something like that. It’s like a silent ranking system we give ourselves to measure our success by. Like being run off our feet is our greatest accomplishment!
I used to feel like this.
Constantly panicked by the countdown of the clock. Never feeling like there was enough hours in each day to complete all the tasks I had set for myself. Then one day I realised, there is no medal of honour or prize for feeling stressed out! The high heart rate, the running, rushing, bolting out the door for the next appointment, not taking time to look after myself and being a down right grump had me thinking I was achieving so much. Stress equaled accomplishment, therefore happiness right?! Wrong.