I watch my aunt rush from meeting to meeting, activity to activity. You can never get more than 30 minutes of quality, non-rushed time with her. I love talking to her. She has great insights and knows her stuff. Definitely a person you’d love to hang out with so her knowledge can rub off on you.
I wonder if she feels stressed. I do, just watching her I feel tension. As she says I can only stay for a few minutes I cringe. I don’t do nearly as much as she does and yet I know I am stressing.
How do I know when I am totally stressing out? Well, I used to be a work at home mom and I thought that was stressful until my husband told me to get a real job that will make us more money.
When I began working outside of the home 5 years ago I only had 15 lbs to get rid of, no white hairs, no itching skin and rashes, and no pimples that I could hardly control.
Today, I started seeing white hairs. My skin is constantly itching, dry and cracked. I don’t have time to are for myself.
I stayed home for 2 weeks during the winter break. During which time I got rid of all the pimples on my body, scalp and face. The itching that would happen on a daily basis vanished. I woke up at 9am in the morning with no where to rush to. I slept before 10pm at night without tossing and turning worrying about tomorrow’s deadlines and projects.
I didn’t have to get everyone ready for school, get myself ready for work, cook dinner rushed and doing kids homework all while trying to get the laundry done, light house cleaning and everything else you can imagine could happen in a day.
I worked in my garden. I built a new cd rack. I put up a new wall. All the things that lingered in my mind was now being realized.
I never realized that I was under stress. People mentioned it on tv and at work. I couldn’t figure out what a stressful person would look like. Actually, I thought of my mother. But me, no, not me.
I was wrong. So, get rid of stress to save yourself the agony later.
