Truthfully, it is hard to be human. Everyday is a race against something, the never ending race to survive. We keep striving to get over something, to achieve our cravings, to protect ourselves from danger and it goes on and on the eternal race never stops. Everytime we engage in activities we are bound to get stressed, it is like value added tax that comes with everything we do, can a human do without stress? I would say it is impossible.
There is popular proverb among my people it says, a child that doesn't want to get beaten by rain or Sun will be beaten by starvation or poverty. This proverb is making us understand that life is all about struggling to do something, while we struggle, we get stronger and also learn. Though the level of stress might differ depending on the amount of resources an individual have access to but stress is stress, no matter how little it is, we must all have our share of it.
There is this story of a man that claims to find himself on a plane in a first class with Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Nigeria. This man claims that, while he was trying to stretch his legs and make himself comfortable as someone riding a first class but at some point, this man decided to peep and see what the richest man in Nigeria was doing with his time, he was surprised to see him going through numerous documents and from the looks of it, it seems he has been on it for awhile.
So the man was like, I don't have anything close to what this man has but here I'm stretching my legs feeling big while a wealthy man like Dangote is working this hard in his leisure time. I heard of this story and I just kept wondering, this man have enough employees to get things done for him without needing to move a finger, it just proves that there are things we need to get done ourselves no matter how wealthy a person is.
Stress does not discriminate between the rich and the poor, it doesn't recognise colour or anything, as long as you are a living being, you must experience it. This is not just about humans this includes animals and ants, we all experience our portion of stress as a living being. As a living being, even if you choose not to do anything at all, you will still get stressed by something, that is the funny thing about stress, it is either you are stressing yourself or you are stressing something or something is stressing you.
The only category of people that are immune to stress are the dead and non-living things and the reason is because they can't feel anymore. This is the sad reality of being a living being, to be alive is to acknowledge stress because without it we can't get anything done and it is one of the few things that stands as proof that we are living.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Avoiding stress in hive learners community.
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We choose to do things, we get stressed by the challenges of doing it, we choose not to, and we get stressed by the consequences of not doing it. That's just how life works for every one.
Exactly.
No matter what we do, we will still experience stress.
You're right, it doesn't distinguish, and that's something that makes us human.
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You said it all. Stress is truly a part of living. No matter who we are or what we have, life will always demand something from us. We just keep pushing and learning every day.
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No matter who we are, we all have our portion of stress.
Just like you've said, stress is part of us as a living and up until the breathe stops, stress continues as long as we continue to pursue one thing or the other
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As long as we are living, stress is unavoidable.