A friend who speaks on stress used an analogy to describe how we deal with things. He said we are like a glass of water that has some level of water in it at all times, that is the stress we carry around all the time. Then there are things that happen that cause more water to go into our glass which raises the level. Whether the glass overflows depends on the amount of water already in the glass and how much is being poured in. His premise is that if we understand that and try to not carry so much already in the glass, we will be able to handle more that life throws at us. We all get more than a glass of water thrown at us from time to time, sometimes it feels more like a fire hose, but I also know some folks who are carrying around so much stress their glass couldn’t take one more drop. Some of them it seems, have no reason to have that much, they have nothing going on, and yet they are overwhelmed. I used to work for a guy like that. I swore he was going to pop a blood vessel in his head and end up dead at his desk. Eventually, he quit and moved to Florida. Hopefully, he is much more relaxed now. The reason I bring this up is, I see a lot of my friends and family on Facebook right now posting things that seem to suggest they are very stressed or at least very fearful. I would like to tell all of them that they still have friends and family that love them and we have not unfriended them. I hope that gives them a reason to lower their level of stress, if not I have attached a picture of my new puppies, which should do the trick! Either way I hope you can get back to a calmer more gentle level in your lives.