Therapy

Working retail at the holidays is stressful at best. Most people are in good moods, but the stress of the season is apparent. The other day a particularly mean spirited person had just finished telling me about my stores shortcomings and pretty much unloaded all of their days frustrations on me. At this point in time I must have had a rather unusual tint to my skin tone. One of the stores regular customers walked up to me, shook my hand, and offered a bit of advice. He said:

"Son, if you don't learn how to get rid of your stress, your gonna drop dead real soon!"

"How do you suppose I get rid of my stress?" I asked.

"Well, since its probably not a good idea for you to tell people what your thinking, I'm guessing you could go on quite a tirade, maybe you might want to take up a hobby. Perhaps boxing? Martial Arts? I personally like to write"

Now, I have been told plenty of times in my life that I tend to stress out a bit and that I don't always deal with it in the best possible way. For some reason, I have always been a "shoot first, apologize later" kind of person. Lately, I have been trying to change that behavior, and on this particular day, his words sunk in and made sense. So here I am, writing. (I tried boxing, well Wii boxing, and was rather winded quite quickly.)

From now on, when people or events stress me out, I am going to start thinking of how to write that down and vent through a keyboard. I'm thinking its a good thing I work at a place that sells keyboards. I'm guessing the first couple of entries might be somewhat intense on the poor, unsuspecting keyboard.