Resist or Repair

Stress overcomes everyone occasionally.  Resist climbing on someone else's back when it happens, more especially when that person is a lover, a friend, or a relative who had little or nothing to do with the stressor.  It's tempting to transfer anxiety or bad feelings and may relieve some immediate pressure -- while having seriously hurtful impact on that other person.  It is absolutely NOT worth it.

Just be alone with your urge to vent for a moment or two - take some time and consider the options you have -- take a walk, a quiet bath or quick shower; play some music you like, eat something delicious, make a cup of tea.  None of those activities will necessitate trying to repair damaged feelings later.

Most volatile situations are subject to resolution . . . sit down and list one or two possible solutions.  No problem improves in the midst of an angry tirade.  Credibility is a key issue when we want to be taken seriously; projecting unreasoning anger will do away with this attribute quickly.



  

New Eyes

Step right into a new world . . . take a trip, learn a song, put your feet in the ocean and open your arms to a wide horizon.  Listen to melodies you loved long ago; touch a new leaf, a silk garment, a baby's skin.  Feel a warm breeze on your skin, close your eyes and believe everything, and nothing.

Walk a nature path and hear birds and droning insects; stand by a stream and feel the rhythm of the cascading water.  This is nothing humans have created.  You are on hallowed ground, honor that.  Stones, leaves, thickets, majestic trees, lithe saplings bending in the wind.  Colors in pure form, noncontrived movement.

Look skyward and know that the air which sustains your life is part of the ultimate plan; the waters we so freely use are earth's lifeblood.  This is a joint effort, friends . . . respect its survival, yours does and will depend on this.