Stress- A necessary evil?
Stress- A necessary evil? Khush hai vahi jo thoda betaab hai…. Lyrics by Javed Akhtar often seem to answer my dilemma or maybe I am interpretating it wrong? Here’s some food for thought… When I think of the word ‘stress’, it being overly used lately, the first thoughts are of several quotes I would’ve read or heard aiming at philosophically explaining this state of mind. The strongest one comes to my mind is a quote I read at a Monastery in Nepal, ‘Reality is the leading cause of stress’ . This really struck a chord. Our desire to reject the reality as it is and to constantly aspire at changing it to what we believe should be ideal does cause immense friction. In my article, UNACCEPTABLE Theory of Motivation, I attempted to catch up on the idea- ‘When everything around a person is acceptable, that person is not motivated to do ANYTHING… When there is no desire to Change anything around, there is no desire to do anything, there is NO DESIRE TO REJECT ANYTHING, nothing around is UNACCEP