Recognizing Causes of Stress from Bacon From Acorns
My wife and I were recently reflecting on a problem. There is so much visiting and hosting that we would like to do, and so little time in which to do it. We started to feel stressed just thinking about it.
So my mind turned to the broader issue of stress in our lives today, and I remembered a remarkable passage in The Timeless Way of Building wherein Christopher Alexander writes about contexts that are intrinsically stress inducing. Why are some contexts—even including architectural patterns—stress-inducing? Because they put fundamental goods of our life in unhealthy and often unnecessary competition with one another.
It was as though a light-bulb went off in my head. Often precious goods in our lives are forced into at least seemingly irreconcilable opposition. And we experience great stress.
♥ Wife, homeschooling mom, conspiracy analyst ♥
I try hard to not have activities scheduled on consecutive days; it just leaves too little time for me to do the more basic things that need to be done.
Same here. I also try not to do things on Saturday because then we're worn out for Sunday and Sunday already wears me out on its own.
♥ Wife, homeschooling mom, conspiracy analyst ♥
