Most people drift along in a subdued, self-congratulatory haze. The hood ornament on this method of traveling through life(very slowly) is stress. Stress is, about 4 times out of 5, completely invented. 1 time out of 5, it's blown out of proportion, like everything else.
The equation that the modern daily grind operates on: work causes stress= stress is very upsetting= stress is complained about= stress is "relieved" and minute amounts of serotonin and dopamine flow. However, when carefully examined, most lives are not very stressful. When they are, the stress is more easily dealt with than the individual likes to admit.
Why? Couldn't they just realize that their lives are actually pretty uneventful? Well, yes, but that would mean 2 things: They wouldn't be justified in "relieving" their stress by drinking "a few beers" and badgering others, and also, They would be pretty bored, instead of in a constant state of time-killing alarm. With their unstressed, unaffected brains, what would they do? Think? Act? Do something to enjoy their own company? The horror!
What's worse than your full-time school schedule, your full-time work schedule and taking care or your 3 children? Whining about it afterwards instead of doing something else. You might have been stressed, for fleeting moments, and now those moments are over. Have a cup of coffee and read a book for fucks sake. You bastards are stressing me out.
1 comment:
yeah, this is why i hate the service industry (or any industry for that matter). protestantism/bourgeois false consciousness has imparted in us the idea that it only counts as work if you suffer each and every step of the way.
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