Musings on life in general

 
A little over ten years ago, in one of the classes that served as a precursor for my Master’s curriculum, I took a life-stress survey. This was simply a check-off of all the identified stress events I had experienced in the preceding year, with varying point values for the different events, and multiple scores for those events I had undergone more than once during that year. According to the scale, a total score of 100 was about normal, 200 would indicate sufficient stress to be worth some serious concern, and 300 was the point at which you could expect to see the stress-level beginning to affect your physical health.

My score? 1,014.

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That’s life. You can always count on there being a surprise twist.