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I have been spending sometime now trying to figure out why some people are more susceptible to stress while others are not. I have not yet found out so I thought using this media might be of help. I have met some people who have to have something to worry about, even when their worries are solved , they will still come up with something else to stress them out and they manage to make it a mountain out of a molehill. In this article I would like to specify that am concentrating on the negative stress that leads to depression and such kind of ailments and not the positive stress.

It is very difficult even for doctors to define stress because it is differs from person to person, the symptoms magnify themselves differently depending on the person involved. The other point is that people can live with stress for a very long time without acknowledging it, since to some, it might appear as a sign of weakness while to others, its probably the only way they know life is.

The other issue is that, the causes of stress are different from person to person. Some people who are used to being wealthy can easily get stressed for the need of wanting more than the not so wealthy folks. I have travelled to the poorest nations and have the pleasure of meeting very poor people materially and I stress materially as defined by the western countries because, the folk I met might have been the happiest people I have ever met, despite their material problems. They were giving, kind and loving, and I couldn’t help but wonder how human beings without an idea of what to give their children for dinner, can offer such a volumptious lunch, with such love and kindness and openness, and even would be offended if you didn’t take the meal.I know there are also kind and loving people who are wealthy materially as there would be men hearted poor people, but its this generosity and happiness that caught my eye.

In the western world stress is a common name among households, especially with families with small children. Parents have no time for themselves and for the children. Carriere life has become so important that it is mostly what defines our lives, its by what we do for a living. In this way a carrier and or lack of it become major sauces of stress in our daily lives. I do not have the answer but I can challenge you to take a leaf from the example I gave with the poor folk that I met, lets spend time being grateful for what we have, being grateful for the blessings that come our way, by this I mean, I learnt that, a visitor coming to their home was a blessing, and finally, lets re-evaluate our selfish nature. Nowadays life revolves around me, myself and I syndrome, common quotes like, ‘I don’t have enough time for myself’, ‘I don’t have enough space for myself’, ‘this noise is too much for me.’ should not be the prime focus on our lives.

Finally I would say, lets reduce the stress around us by evaluating our needs, whats important and we might just realize life is not so hard afterall..