No Stress Here.....

As life goes on and we get older and wiser we learn to deal with all sorts of situations and sometimes we even take advise to get us to the other side of some of life's trials and tribulations without too much loss of sleep and sometimes without a glance back or even a second thought.
Then there are times when it can all get too much and at every turn and corner you are meet by the brick wall of life-this weekend I saw the effects of such a scenario unfolding before my eyes when my wife felt the stresses and strains of her work life and it felt to her like the brick wall was made of breeze block with re-enforced steel behind it!
Now as many out there will appreciate this is a work related problem that is extremely common nowadays in fact it is the most common sign off for a GP topping all other illnesses. It begs the question why are we becoming so stressed? in a time of super fast communication and a wee bit of technology for just about everything you can imagine to make our life easier.
Like most things in life and like most questions in life we tend to look at what we do in our own situation to see if there are any answers.
The wee one and I tend to go through life relatively stress free-relatively for me apart from the usual heart stopping moments we all get when something untoward happens and the everyday anxieties that they are happy and well and for the wee one completely stress free unless you count huffs and the occasional temper tantrum.
Having said that it would be foolish of me to think I never suffered from stress or that as an adult my life was completely stress free, we all suffer an amount of stress in our daily lives whether it is worrying about money or family members that are not well- you know daily life!!
So looking for answers I look to the wee one who spends her day entertaining herself be it playing with her many toys or simply dressing up and playing imaginary picnics. There is definitely lessons to be learned from just watching the wee one and seeing her outlook on life, life for most of our wee ones is to be enjoyed and every minute a prisoner of pleasure with the biggest fight of the day being bedtime because that means another enjoyable day has come to in her eyes a premature end in my eyes just in time to preserve sanity lol.
There we have it then the answer to our modern day illness is to play more, sadly as most adults know work dictates our time off and the cost of living determines our ability to pay for our entertainment because if we were caught dressing up and having an imaginary picnic- well we all know the various answers to that one.
AND FINALLY
The papa our eighty something rebel of the household shared a memory today that was pretty relevant to our topic-sixty years ago today with the weather almost identical he stepped off a train in his home town after being demobbed from the army. To get home he walked a further six miles down the railway track, knocked his door to be greeted by his mum who had tears of joy and relief that her son had returned home safely. How is that relevant well because he concluded his story by saying of course you could not walk down the railway like that now a days-because its illegal? no because the trains go that bloody fast I would not have made it one mile let alone six was the answer!!