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“Manage Your Stress” Is Stupid, Useless Advice
Everything you read about improving your health or avoiding cancer or just making it through another day on this Godforsaken ball of dirt hurtling through space tells you to, “Manage your stress.”
Oh, okay.
Telling someone to manage their stress is like saying “Manage the bear that’s attacking you,” or “Manage the shark that’s biting off your legs.”
Buddy, if you can “manage your stress” by meditating, or listening to soothing music, or taking a hot bath, it ain’t stress.
And meanwhile, my teeth are rotting out of my head because all my body wants is sugar to fuel the stress flames and caffeine to battle the sleeplessness. And the wheel goes round and round.
In fact, stress made me buy this McDonald’s cheeseburger which came with free fries, because my stress is also cheap. My stress is all about money. Even if I have enough right now, what about tomorrow, and the next day and the next day?
My mantra is “What if?”
It’s also great that this report came out a few days ago, blasting the bullshit myth that “Money can’t buy happiness” to smithereens.
