What is the purpose of stress? Apart from premature hair loss what does it accomplish? It doesn’t propel a person to greatness. Most highly stress individuals step out their office via their office windows quite regularly. The also favour frequent trip to the ER while they’re attacked by their over-stressed and under appreciated hearts.
Does stress have a greater purpose than killing off middle-aged guys who still believe they look hot on motorbikes?
I think it might, but I think the problem is that we have stopped listening to stress. Surely it’s an indicator that should not be ignored. When you’re falling apart because of your job maybe it means you should take it easy? Maybe it means you need to learn how to say no.
Yet we don’t say no. We do exactly the opposite, we say yes and buckle down. We are petrified that if we say no we’ll be looked over and ignored when it comes to promotion time.
We ignore our premature bald spots, reduced sex drives and frequent bouts of illness. Why? Well it must be because on some level we believe that this is what life is about.
That’s very sad. I for one have to believe that life is about more. That it’s worth more. Maybe it’s just easier to accept the slow and passionless corporate death? The other option, the one that involves less stress, tends to be less appealing. Mostly because it’s characterized by a smaller car and less gorgeous handbags.