A psychologist walked around a room
while teaching stress management to an audience. As he raised a glass of water,
everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead,
with a smile on his face, he inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”
Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to
20 oz.
He replied, “The absolute weight does
not matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’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, my arm will feel numb
and paralysed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the
longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”
He continued, “The stresses and worries
in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing
happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And, if you
think about them all day long, you will feel paralysed – incapable of doing
anything.”
Remember… to put the glass down.!
This is a precious lesson to be learnt by each one of us!How true that we hold on to so many shades of stresses in the course of a little span of time.Gr8 post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr.Rufus.
very true. moreover, the expression shades of stresses reminds me of Wordsworth's wonderful lines in the Intimations Ode: "Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy.... Indeed, these 'shades' may also mean the stress and worries in life, that imprison the individual. The more one thinks about them, the more they begin to hurt.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the nice observations.