“Are you full of stress? If your answer is YES - Do you want a stress-free life?”

     These were the questions that one of my elders asked me after he had heard me talking with my cousins about how stressed I felt. At first, my answer to his questions had been an emphatic NO.

    When I started realizing my constant need of picturing myself as a busy and stressed person, just to appear normal, successful and look like the rest of people that were part of my stressed-out world, I finally understood I had been a stress addict for many years, thanks to the anxious or even angry thoughts, that I was unconsciously creating with my brain. The thoughts were running wild without any control from my part.

Is Life a rat race?

   I certainly did not have the type of life I was dreaming of at that time. It felt as if I was competing all the time. But, competing with whom? This is the question....