look of stress is undeniable
It is different for everyone of us, but we see it don’t we?
Or do we?
Stress is one of those ubiquitous words that you hear all day every day, just about everywhere you go.
‘Oh I’m just stressed’ – you hear on street. Just…
stressed.
But what is stress? How do you know it’s there?
Let’s face it, we don’t really know it’s there until we see the symptoms the results the actual look of stress.
Stress comes in waves, at times monumental tidalwaves.
This year has been tremendously stressful for me. My parents are in decline. My father was hospitalized for a couple months.
You Can’t Save the World – or even one person.
I found myself doing my best to be the ‘best daughter’ and the saviour and the do-it-all and the Be-everything.
And I failed miserably at everything.
My body was my number one confidant. Every fibre of my being absorbed the fear, the pain and the miserableness of it all.
The Body Speaks Volumes.
The look of stress became fully apparent to me as my hair started falling out in clumps.
Over a one month. I lost about a third of my hair.
It was time to stand back. I had to look within and ask myself ‘WTF are you doing?’
No one is coming to save you. You must find a way to deal with life, better.
The chaos and hardships of stress are everywhere in our society.
We feel the stress, the effects of it internally and within our families in our homes. And we feel and experience it daily on the streets of our cities. Often, we have no idea just how stressful life is until it comes to a stop. You don’t recognize just how much stress stresses all around you until you’re stuck on the 4 Lane highway looking at the demolition or the rubble on the side of the road.
The demolition in the city street: that is the look of stress.
The hair falling out in clumps from all this turmoil I experienced that is the look of stress.
The broken streets, in disrepair, slowly getting renewed along with the old crumbled buildings, that is the look of stress.
Now what?
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