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Have you ever stopped to think how hard you work over the course of a day or a week? I was listening to the radio the other day and an item came on saying that the UK was now top for road rage, I don’t know how they measure this, but it did set me thinking. Is it because we work such long hours, that by the time we are on the road, we are stressed out and frustrated?
I know a couple of nurses and their days are so long, they are on their feet literally all day, added to that they still have these long journeys across busy parts of London to get to their shifts and then over to the gym to come and do my classes.
Are they stressed? Well, “yes” they say, “but it is all in a days work.” Perhaps therefore, just as we physically have morphed through the years to become upright creatures of “intellect” so our brains are adapting to our new and different environments and have adapted to the fact that hours and hours are spent in a “mode” which is wanted or required by others for us to do our jobs and less time is spent in our “true selves state”.
Also, expectations have changed, we want our homes to look a certain way and our clothes to smell a certain way and to eat certain things, our predecessors would not have been as fussy and choosy as we are, therefore do we work harder at this? Or actually, it is because we have more time on our hands that we have actually thought up all this stuff to worry about?
But, it is odd don’t you think that road rage could occur if someone was a bit ratty and trying to get home on a Saturday evening to watch their favourite TV show, something about Britain and Talent I think….mentioning no names…. :)
John Shehan
