How to Even…Deal with Stress

By CL Bledsoe & Michael Gushue

Real Talk: Everyone reading this blog will eventually die. That is why it’s a good idea to buy things on credit. Unless you’re living an arguably much more interesting (though shorter) life than ours, we’ll all spend our lives as part of a society. Society is a term used to summarize all of the accomplishments people have made in an attempt to get as far away from nature as possible. Because nature sucks. Things want to eat us there. And they did, until we figured out how to kill them back. That gave us a little breathing room so we could figure out air conditioning and how to have sex with absolutely anything.

Unfortunately, our monkey brains have a hard time dealing with society. See, there are hundreds of subcultures, social mores, and cultural norms determined by all sorts of arbitrary things, but the main quality all societies share is that they have rules. These rules came about for all sorts of reasons, all of them laughably obsolete. Two thousand years ago, they seemed very important, but now, with the advent of refrigerators and science, not so much.

All this should demonstrate to you that we, as a species, are very silly and shouldn’t be trusted with any responsibility whatsoever.

What further complicates matters is that these rules are subjective and change depending on random…