Stress Management

Stress is just simply a part of life.  There's no way to totally eliminate it, at least not that I'm aware of.  Because of this, my key to being happy and content is how I manage the stress that I can control, and to find an outlet for stress that I can't.  My method of stress relief is to take all the frustration, aggression, and bad intentions built up throughout the day/week and channels it into a release with no catastrophic real world consequences...gaming.  You may be asking yourself, "aren't you, as a 40 something year old adult, too old for such childish indulgences?  Isn't gaming just for kids?"  As prevalent as that assumption is, there are a great many of us older (I actually prefer to use the term "mature") gamers out there, especially in the PC gaming world.  So when I refer to myself gaming to relieve stress, I don't necessarily mean the infinitely more popular and publicized console wars waged between the countless gaggles of feckless teens, flocking obsessively to the game du jour, but I digress.  I could go on for days about the demographic differences between PC and console gamers, but that will have to be for another blog.


Stress relief, a couple clicks of a mouse and a few internet hops to a server half a world away.  Who would've ever thought that the benefits of technology could be so cathartic, especially through such a "childish" medium?  The following videos are just a few of my Stress Relief 101 sessions. Hopefully everyone that reads this has that one activity that helps them cope with the stress that life dumps on our doorsteps everyday.