Eliminate Stress and Worry !!

How to eliminate stress and worry from your life??? There are many ways that vary in effectiveness. Sit down in a quiet area with a nice rose or flower of your choice and contemplate each other. You can be sure that the rose is contemplating you:-)

I am lucky in that I have a close relative who is a great stress reliever. My almost 3 year old grandson has allowed me to be a part of his life on an almost daily basis. Yesterday he phoned in the morning and asked if I would take him to the airport on the new skytrain. I must admit that I had other things to do and also had to work the evening shift starting at 1:30 that afternoon. My adult self was saying "you don't have time", "you have been to the airport many times", "maybe we could just have a short visit", blah, blah, blah. My more adventurous child self was saying: "go and have fun", "you did say you wanted to see the world through the eyes of a child", "don't be lazy", and "it would mean a lot to Tyler". Well the long and short of it was that Tyler and I went off to the airport.

We started walking to the bus stop hand in hand. The short walk was punctuated with stops to examine various plants, flowers and waterfalls that connect our two apartment buildings. Tyler brought smiles to people walking and those on the bus when he exclaimed loudly: "Grampa look, a GARBAGE TRUCK !!!" Even more treasures were to be revealed to me as we stopped at each skytrain station and tried to determine where the people who were getting on were going. "Where do you think they are going grampa??" Much excitement ensued when a skytrain passed going in the opposite direction and when the airport came into view. Such small events and sitings became wonderful discoveries and time passed with nary a thought from me. The return trip was just as exciting as the outbound leg and there were no end of the adult smiles that Tyler created with his running commentary of life on our big adventure for the day.

To say that stress and worry were eliminated from my adult life during our journey may be a bit of a stretch, but I can tell you that they were relegated to the unthought of regions of my brain for the time. Who would have thought that one could get so much enjoyment out of riding on a bus, skytrain, looking at flowers and contemplating were other people were going.

If you want to see life in a different perspective, then take your grandkids, borrow someone else's for a few hours and see life as they see it.

I GUARANTEE, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND THE WAY YOU SEE THINGS !!!!

Much love, to the child in you.

Dennis