Stress is invincible

When monarchs fail to fight off the tyranny of unease, what are commoners. In the case of kings it is authority that’s responsible for the unease as aptly put by William Shakespeare. In commoners’ cases the reasons change, but never the torment of unease.

The child keeps worrying about toys, the parents about the child; the teen about his future; the adult about his success; the successful about consolidating it and the failed about recovery. We will run out of words, but not aspects of life being smothered by unease.  

I try my best to avoid chronic grumblers…

Sheer years, happy and painful, left one message with me and that was ‘enjoy as much as you can when you get a chance because unease believes in breaks, not quitting.’

The message became my unfailing lodestar. 

Without meaning to be preachy, permit me to share how I have been heading off the ferocious presence of unease. I try my best to avoid chronic grumblers, avoid moralising, avoid belittling emotions and make room up to a point for deliberately insulting assaults. I ignore, not hate, people I don’t like, which flows from my belief ‘live and let live.’

What worked, at least in my case, is being friends with like-minded people. There is no need to try out different types of people because there is very little time and life has to be lived.

I befriended people with a sense of humour for laughter is without doubt an irreplaceable breather that life offers for free. Most other things on its menu have a price tag. 

Since we are at it let me tell you what a friend told me when I told him that my father had official links with the zoo in Kolkata. He said, “It shows in the son.” After a few seconds we burst out laughing. And we still laugh about the comment whenever we meet. I am yet to see a funnier guy.

Let’s not break our heads over stress because it has no cure. And because it is that we must work hard on palliatives.