A step to the left is cancer, a step to the right is an ulcer, a jump in place is a heart attack.
If a couple of years ago, the modern world promoted textbooks and courses on EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT and MULTI-TASK, today it shrugs hypocritically and offers a new panacea for all ills: relax.
The man is calm. His jaws are tightly compressed, perspiration is covering his crimson face. He is furiously calm.
-What, are you unlucky? - The modern world is laughing maliciously behind your back.
-Come on, take a vacation. Mountains, sea, beach. Well, how did it get easier?
Great, now come back. Get on your burning bike, which you drive straight to hell in five directions at the same time, trying not to burn with it.
I don’t know where this harmful conspiracy of the Buddhists came from (BUT I have nothing against Buddhism), it seems that no one saw them as protesters.
Nevertheless, clockwork people obediently buy yoga passes, retreat tickets, arrange Internet detoxes and pay big money so that some people forbid them to talk for ten days. Then, with a sense of accomplishment, they return back to the office, because something tells them that after two weeks of "idleness" they EXCELLENTLY RELAXED AND READY FOR NEW CHALLENGES.
But there is one reliable recipe, and it is very simple: you need not to deal with stress. You need to deal with what causes stress - with your inability to adapt.
You need to learn, you need to get used to the idea that no stress will kill you. First you stop worrying about nonsense, and then once, faced with big problems, you will find that you are not falling into hysteria, but simply solving the problem.
