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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
May 4, 2013
You know where I get most stressed. By anything or anyone that tells me not to get stressed. I am up to here with people who are stress experts. Physical trainers, writers, cultural pundits, psycho-babble-ists, TV show hosts, your friendly next door neighbor and just about anyone who has clambered on to this bandwagon and can't stop nattering on about it.
In any case, I love stress. It gets my adrenalin going, it makes me feel I can face the next pebble flung into my path of life (mine, sunshine, is strewn with the stuff) and overcome it.
Without stress all I would be is a limp little pathetic nobody.
So please stop with this stress will kill your business. If you don't have it, one thing is for sure: you'll be dead.
You can't pick up a magazine without someone telling you that it is the stress that is the big killer, all those pent up emotions sloshing about inside creating mayhem. Yeah sure.
To make it more dramatic they called it Executive Stress. This is supposed to make you feel good about yourself before you do yourself in. After all, you didn't succumb to your downmarket garden variety stress, you high flying executive, you.
And having got the human race into this cowering position of surrender these Stressperts have made a financial killing telling you how to combat it. That's what it is, a multi-billion dollar industry.
Thousands of us nervously measuring our stress quotients?
Do you feel fatigue? (Of course, I do, I work 12 hours a day).
Are you inclined to lose your temper (Yes, when I am asked moronic questions like this).
Do you feel frustrated? (Yes, because I can't make you see sense.)
Okay, three out three, you are stressed, that's it, Clyde, better hit the road, you are a basket case.
Gee, what do I do now, kill myself?
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
If my call is so important to them, why don’t they answer it for 22 minutes?
How come when I want to, but something specific online is the only item out of stock.
When I get into a queue or lane going fast, the moment I get in, it becomes the slowest and refuses to budge.
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