📌 Are you all Stressed? Wound up tight? (Original wildlife photo and thoughts)
Adapt 'Hakuna Matata' - No worries philosophy
Reality bites us early on in life. Right from school, we are told, by everyone around us - parents, teachers & 'successful icons' around us that we must apply ourselves to every task. It is nose to the grindstone through school. Once you get good grades and admissions in a good college, we are done. Then we can enjoy life - Isn't that what we all felt, through all the years in school?
Then came college and it was a bigger grindstone for our noses. Slog through till you land a good job. Then you can enjoy life - said everyone! So - I slogged and slogged. Got good grades but the constant worrying about getting my dream job never left me even for a moment.
Well, I did land my dream job and did the grindstone go away from my nose? Oh no - it became bigger and in addition, another grindstone got hung around my neck! ( No no no - I do not mean my wife!! ). The job turned out to be so interesting that I forgot all about family, my hobbies, my friends ... forgot that I had a life!!
Reality check - we can NEVER enjoy life - unless we decide we want to.
Life isn't a race - Find joy in the JOURNEY!
Unfortunately, many of us realize this after half of our lives are over. Well, better late than never. For me, this realization started coming somewhere around the time I saw Lion King. It had this meerkat and a warthog singing 'Hakuna Matata'
Subsequently, in April 2015, I had the chance to observe a meerkat colony near the Reitvlei dam in Preotoria. I found a group of them chilling in the sun - though, throughout the day, they had a busy schedule doing everything from baby-sitting to sentry duty.
If you are feeling stressed out, feeling burnt out, irritable, weak, sleepy most of the time ... please recognize those symptoms. You are in serious need of chilling out.
Here is a simple prescription for you from Dr. Doolittle ( I got it directly from the Meerkats, I swear!! LOL)
I can tell you, from personal experience, that it works. We all know that we can not totally be worry free. We do have commitments that we need to honor - to ourselves, our job, our family and society. Therefore, we can not really be carefree all the time like Timon and Pumba from Lion King. However, we certainly can follow this simple remedy to reduce the stress level considerably from time to time.
In conclusion, in words of Timon & Pumba:
What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata!
Ain't no passing craze
It means no worries
For the rest of your days
Yeah, sing it, kid!
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
Steemians, please share your experiences, knowledge and views about chilling and how you chill. It will be great to get more perspective and a lively dialogue going. Thanks
Note: All images except for the wildlife photo and the title image plus the prescription image created by me are from pixabay.com
Gif created by the legendary @stellabelle for me
Congratulations @vm2904, this post is the eighth most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superuser account holder (accounts that hold between 1 and 10 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superuser account holders during this period was 1205 and the total pending payments to posts in this category was $6932.25. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.
If you do not wish to receive these messages in future, please reply stop to this comment.
Thank you very much. Will take a look
Hello. It is a nice photo. I love it.
I really need to chill out.
I really need those prescriptions but I don't want to,iss a day on steemit.
@seyiodus.
Hey Seyiodus - If you are stressed then take a break even from Steemit and chill, Your steemit friends will still be here for you after a day . Don't worry. Thanks for your comment. Upvoted
I am a firm believer of that prescription myself... My wife struggles a lot with stress and I try to give her these days too.
Just so happens that throughout the day she's always on about how much she needs to do, either because of work, because of her family, because of the business etc...
She can't seem to log off.
Anyways, totally agree... not always feasable T.T
True. Sometimes it is hard to disengage but a concious effort makes it possible. Hope your wife's stress goes down soon. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted
I enjoyed reading your post. Nice photos that you chose. Very cute animals. Enjoy your evening!
Thanks. Yes meerkats are cute but they are also efficient and ruthless. Thanks for your comment. Upvoted
Lion King :-D Watched that cartoon severally decades ago
It was a long time ago but it did have great philosophy that is still valid today. Isnt it? Thanks for your comment. Upvoted
Yeah, it philosophy does remain valid. Greetings :)
Thanks
I delighted in perusing your post. Pleasant photographs that you picked. Exceptionally charming creatures @vm2904
Ooooo1. item. Com
?? Did not understand your comment
You got a 12.81% upvote from @upme requested by: @vm2904.
Send at least 1.5 SBD to @upme with a post link in the memo field to receive upvote next round.
To support our activity, please vote for my master @suggeelson, as a STEEM Witness
Thanks
Hello @vm2904,
such an amazing post, this is what I want in this platform. I'm really interested to connect with friends who like wildlife. In my blog you will find a lot of posts about south africa.