Oct 18, 2005 09:15
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raise a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied,"The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour,
I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. "In each case, it's the same weight,but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." He continued,"And that's the way it is with stress we won't be able to carry on." "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding
it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden." "So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow, Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can." "Relax; pick them up later after you've rested."
i should learn from this. i'm the kind of person who just carries it around until i snap. basically i just need to get whatever is on my mind lately out and "onto the table" b/c there is only one person to talk to it about it to even attempt at making things ok. no one else cares or really wants to deal with it anyway which is fine...i don't blame them at all actually. if i were in there shoes i wouldn't want to hear about it either.
i'm always waiting for a good time when i'm actually with the person and there is never a good time. i think it's time to just pick up the phone and call. my only fear is that once i do this that things will be even worse than they have been and are...and that i could potentially lose a good friend. i'm not sure that what i have to say to them is really all that bad...it's more of things i just wanted to make them aware of, but you never really know how someone is going to take them. ummmm.....i'm pregnant. not really but it's fun to say sometimes. but on the other hand the longer i wait the worse it'll prolly get, b/c i get more akward about it everyday i let it go. i think things will be ok though.
my show is hung and cabled, we focus tomorrow....my show is going well...so far!!!
also 3 weeks until LDI and vacation! haunted housing is lots of fun!! less than two weeks until i take my checkride for my pilots license...finally...yay!!! who wants to go flying????
so i think i'm going to try not to post unhappy posts so much. at least until i've sat on my issues for at least a few hours if not a day or so. i've realized that most of the time lately i'm a lot rediculous and over-reacting to lots of things that i shouldn't be. so i'm sorry about my last several posts ang things that i've done or said to people lately.
well i have class soon so have a great day everyone.