• Stress? What Stress?

  Filed under A Dude's Guide to Life
  Dec 14

  by Richard

  The most wonderful time of the year? Schyeah, right. I call it the most stressful time of the year and I’m guessing that a lot of you do as well. Unless you’re the type to foist all this stuff onto your significant other, sit back and smile until you get caught. For those of us who have to actually do stuff during Christmas season, the stress has been building since before Thanksgiving and hasn’t stopped going up since. The stress is cranking down like a 240-pound wrestler grabbing the ankle of a smaller wrestler in practice. That is, a lot. Of stress. Yeah.

  However. And, really, aren’t you glad I added that however? I mean, I starting to get pretty depressing. Not depressed myself, you understand, but I thought I was being depressing. For you. Know what? Move on. I’m going to just move on.

  Anyway. What I was trying to say was that there is an easier way to do this. If you can get one of your ankles one the floor. Just one of them. (Sorry. That joke was for me and the other three Dr. Hook fans out there.) The path to Christmas can be much less bumpy and it won’t be because someone came along with a road grader and flattened out the bumps in the road ahead. Nope.

  The changes start with you. Yes you. And you over there. And, that dude behind you. Yeah, all of them.

  Here’s the deal. Slow down. Seriously, under it all, that’s basically what you need to do. If you’ve got cleaning to do before you can put the lights and ornaments up on the tree with your little dudes and you choose cleaning first, well you’re missing out on the point of the season. Do you think the little dudes, in 20 or 30 years, will remember if the house was clean, or the clothes washed on time, or the dishes done? Or will they remember smiling and laughing while you lift one up by the waist and hold her there to put on her favorite-ist ornament? Yeah, I think we know the answer to those.

  Christmas doesn’t have to be perfect, even if you’ve got the in-laws coming over for an inspection a visit. If they expect perfection, just smile and tell them you hope they have a perfectly good time and enjoy themselves.

  So, trick number one: slow down. Tomorrow we’ll talk about trick number two.

  • Spread the word, dude!

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