I was watching 20/20 (pre-recorded – it was about time I had DVR – now, that is something I can and will control J ) last night and it was about “drinking moms.” These were mostly young, stay at home mothers who were alcoholics and started dinking early in the morning while getting the kids ready. It sounds awful, but I found myself having a deep sympathy for them. I don’t think anyone would like to be an alcoholic mom when they grow up! They were each under lots of pressure to be a great mom, good wife, and a super woman. Well, we all kinda wanna be that. They just made a wrong choice. They chose to drink up that stress. We all choose – everyday, every hour. We all choose how we want to deal with “stress.” I may choose anti depressant, some one else chooses to over eat (well, I do that too J), the other goes for the pain killer (wait, me again,) etc. Now, don’t go screaming at me that taking anti depressant is “normal” or really to fix a hormonal imbalance. I know. Aren’t we doing all these stuff to balance whatever we are missing? Over spending, over sleeping, over cleaning, helicopter over our children, taking sleeping pills, praying, etc.
We all want to be happy and we should be. We all know we should exercise and eat right. Well, I wonder (and yes, I do do that), if that is enough to be happy and healthy while going through life’s stress??
If too much stress is causing some to turn into drinking or using drugs (prescription included,) then wouldn’t that mean it is doing something really bad to our body? Of course, eating right and exercising is helpful, but in what dosage? What is “stress” anyway? The ride not showing up on time, the phone doesn’t work, the dead line, etc.? I wonder what was our ancestor’s stress?: no food – must eat neighbor 
Isn’t “stress” just life? If you can imagine every time we get “stressed out”, a little poison gets injected into our blood stream and it gets delivered to all our organs, then no medicine, no amount of Chinese herbs, colon cleansing, accupuncture or accupressure (you get the picture) will be helpful, if the poison is entering our body all the time.
If I get up in the morning and see life is coming “at” me like non stop rain, stressful events one after each other, how many hours of exercise and how many bunches of fresh organic spinach would do?
What should we do? Should we keep a positive thought and keep on saying “it is not raining, it is not raining” while getting soaked, or should we go and hide under a shelter until it all “goes away,” and spend the rest of our life doing stuff to distract ourselves until it stops? Should we cover ourselves with a rain coat, running away from it fast while screaming “damn it, when is this going to stop?”, or should we get busy picking up the phone and gossip it out everyday: I can’t believe it is still raining – we need some sunny days.
I suggest, think of it as not raining “at” you, but “for” you. Grab an umbrella and you guess it: keep dancing in the rain!
Now, I gotta go practice what I preach
