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Why Is Life Always So Stressful?
WARNING: Unpopular Opinion Below!
Life is not stressful! It only seems stressful because we force it to be.
Work is not stressful; well, at least not on it’s own.
It’s just sitting down and doing it; punching in the keys on the keyboard, lifting a hammer and slamming it down on a nail or sitting down and thinking about a possible solution to a problem.
Relationships aren’t stressful either.
You talk to your partner, let them know what you want, listen to what they want, and find a way to create an amazing life for both of you.
Why does that have to involve stress?
Whether it’s paying your bills, buying Christmas presents, finding a job, dating, exercising or getting up in the morning, the activities themselves are just that: Activities that you do or do not do.
None of that is really “Stressful”.
But that does not mean that stress does not exist.
Stress still finds a way into our lives because we put a lot of value on these activities.
We put importance on them, make them big, and give them a meaning beyond their original design.
We tie our work to our existence, our relationships to our happiness and our…
