Living LIFE Stress

There is a kind of stress we experience when life is good and full and it is the demands that people allow and impose upon themsevles that keep them anxious with little time to breathe or think. For these people, it is thier living that is stressful and not LIFE per se. And then there is another kind of stress that exists for those who are in spaces and places where they must fight and hope for even the chance to achieve a good and full life...their lack of busy days manifesting their lack of opportunity. 


For the poorest in Nicaragua, LIFE is stressful, yet ironically thier constraints make thier living slower, more relaxed, even laisse faire.  Children and adults in the towns and villages move slowly, with seemingly little anxitey and long, hot days. There is nothing to rush to.


While the stress of LIFE feels overwhelmingly, almost morbidly unfortunate, the stress many of us take on from our living is more foolsh. After all it is, to varying degrees, self created and based uon our ability, despite external presssure, to define what will make our LIFE ¨good¨.


Irregardless, I doubt if and how our psyches care to distinguish or mitigate...allowing all stress to wreak its inevitable damage.


Click below to view Nicaraguan children in a fenced yard on a hot, slow Wednesday.


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