Trying to de-stress our lives is like trying to herd cats. The more we try to simplify the more complicated things become. Just when it feels like things are about to even themselves out, plop another unforseen drops on the scale, throwing things off balance again. We have just accepted the fact that off quilter is normal for us anyway.
                                     Lately, for me anyway, nothingness has become my stress outlet. I love music, ALL kinds of music, which doesn't bode well for some around me because they hate 99.9% of what I listen to so I just don't listen anymore.Even if music is on I've taken to blocking it out. I love to garden. Nothing like dirt therapy to help overcome lifes calamitys. But that to is meet with negativity. So I stopped playing in the dirt too. I know, I know I shouldn't let other people's negative outlook or attitudes dictate how I live my own day to day but sometimes I reach the point that I just don't see the point anymore.
                                  My husband loves to fish but bless him, it's not something he gets to do very often. Water is his greatest therapy, it settles him like nothing else. Floating down the river with no where to go and all day to get there. That's his kind of day. I have a fear of water which makes me very edgy when I go with him but I put on a brave face and go. I have a good time when I forget where I am. I like to fish to. They are quiet peaceful days, just water, poles,bait, a few chairs and good company. We anchor and fish from the boat or beach it and fish from a empty sand bar. But we haven't done this in a couple of years now.
                                  Life is beyond crazy. I stopped being surprised by what it throws my way a while back. Just take care of what I can as I go and hope what I can't will work itself out. No sense complaining about how things are. It won't help make this life better, it actually makes it worse. We all have our own handicaps so to speak and gripping about them ain't gonna make them go away, it only makes the loved ones around us miserable because they have to make sure things get done. No one likes how things are but bullheaded attitudes only make life harder. Do we like it NO but that is how things are and its best just to pray for the strength to endure and be thankful for the awful things that help us survive this topsy-turvy world we live in.
                                     Just thinking out loud for all the world to see..........