Sorry to be gone all week. Had some server hiccups with the other site and some local headaches as well. Playing catch-up today while fending off The Stress Dragon. Stress is like hearing footsteps coming up the path that aren’t there. I often feel like I’m alone in a world full of idiots who make my life absolutely miserable, and I need to develop better coping skills for life’s little dysfunctions that seem to so easily derail my day. I mean, it’s barely nine o’clock in the morning, and I can already hear the “Jaws” theme pounding in my ears…
Days like this, I just unplug. I mean, I’m pretty useless for much else, anyway, but stress is physical and psychological and all of that. And, the most evil part: the harder you fight to work through it, the more you feed it. So maybe I’ll get my bike out and go play basketball until the orchestra exhausts itself.
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Heh, yeah...one of the reasons I give when people suggest I should (write/draw/sculpt) professionally is that these are things I do to destress. When you do creative stuff for a job, then you lose that option for destressing, and have to find some other outlet. So go shoot you some hoops, dude. :)
scrawled by David Van Domelen | June 1, 2007 10:25 AM
I’ve discovered one of the worst choices you can make is to start doing something you love for a living. Yeah, then writing (or whatever) becomes *extremely* stressful.
scrawled by priest | June 1, 2007 10:47 AM
Hello Mr. Priest. Missed your pressence for awhile.
scrawled by Thelmon | June 1, 2007 2:43 PM
Hello Mr. Priest. Missed your pressence for awhile.
scrawled by Thelmon | June 1, 2007 2:44 PM
Hiya, Thelmon. Missed you all as well.
scrawled by priest | June 1, 2007 4:25 PM
Her Priest, when i get to stressed and have time to kill I play video games. Sorry to sound like a comercial but Wii play. I even got my father-in-law into it. the games are interactive so it can actually raise your heart rate. If you've never played a video game before this is the one to start with. I also make sure that my stress is mine and not something that others are redirecting onto me. how much of the situation is in my hands if none then I try not to apply logic to the ill-logical.
scrawled by mdwaire | June 1, 2007 7:19 PM