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I was having a conversation the other day with a friend talking about kind of the non-stop

quality of challenges, demands, and so on.

That kind of stopped the world and I want to get off.

Can't we just have a little pause?

She sent me this cartoon and there's a graveside funeral and a man is looking at his iPhone

and it's reading auto reply.

I am dead and will have limited access to email.

It doesn't stop.

And most of us have lives with a pretty ongoing sense of that we're constantly being, something

is being asked of us, that there's pressures and it doesn't matter what mood we're in or

whether we're tired or feel sick, they just keep on coming.

And what happens is this triggers and this is of course to different degrees, anxiety

about how things are going to turn out.

And we carry a pretty existential sense that around the corner it might be too much and

I won't be prepared that I'll fall short, that something will go wrong.

And so that's this kind of, this experience of stress can be a climate, a background

climate that informs pretty much everything.

Of course it's a matter of degree.

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