TAKE CARE
Some thoughts to help you through the day
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from eight ounces to 20 ounces.
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 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 seems to be.
"And that's the way it is with stress management," he continued. "If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, 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 you're refreshed, you can carry on with the burden.
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burdens of work or life down. Don't carry them home. You can pick them 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. Life is short. Enjoy!"
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
1) Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days
you're the statue
2) Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you
have to eat them
3) Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die
in the middle of it
4) Drive carefully; it's not only cars that can be recalled by
their Maker
5) If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague
6) If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,
it was probably worth it
7) It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve
as a warning to others
8) Never buy a car you can't push
9) Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
because then you won't have a leg to stand on
10) Nobody cares if you can't dance well; just get up
and dance
11) Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird,
sleep late
12) The second mouse gets the cheese
13) When everything is coming your way, you're in the
wrong lane
14) Birthdays are good for you; the more you have,
the longer you live
15) You may be only one person in the world, but you
may also be the world to one person
16) Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
17) We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp,
some are pretty and some are dull, some have weird names
and all are different colors, but they all have to live in
the same box
18) A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery
on a detour