Re:How are you managing stress?
by codingdave on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:20PM
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I'm less stressed than I have been in most of my life.
My best guess as to why is that the shoe finally dropped. When growing up in the cold war, we were children afraid of dying in a nuclear war. Then we got older an experienced AIDs, terrorism, wars, y2K scares, and all kinds of other events. And while they all brought some trauma and pain, with 9/11 even shutting things down for a brief time... life in the USA just kept on rolling. But those of us who grew up in the Cold War never expected that to last. Many of us turned into adults who live with a constant underlying anxiety that everything will blow up and society will shut down.
Well, it finally did. And somehow that is calming. Because now instead of being anxious over what may come, we just need to react to what did come. Sure, I have problems I'm dealing with now, both at work and home. But they aren't stressful, they are just things I gotta get up and take care of.
My best guess as to why is that the shoe finally dropped. When growing up in the cold war, we were children afraid of dying in a nuclear war. Then we got older an experienced AIDs, terrorism, wars, y2K scares, and all kinds of other events. And while they all brought some trauma and pain, with 9/11 even shutting things down for a brief time... life in the USA just kept on rolling. But those of us who grew up in the Cold War never expected that to last. Many of us turned into adults who live with a constant underlying anxiety that everything will blow up and society will shut down.
Well, it finally did. And somehow that is calming. Because now instead of being anxious over what may come, we just need to react to what did come. Sure, I have problems I'm dealing with now, both at work and home. But they aren't stressful, they are just things I gotta get up and take care of.