So it's Fun Friday already, and I know a lot of you readers have been wondering what could be more fun than the story last week well let's kick it up a notch with a little stress analogy. However before I do that you have GOT TO PLAY THIS GAME, no ifs, ands, or buts, just play the game. Then after you play you will realize why I was so intent on you playing.
So that was fun wasn't it! Now you might be wondering why in heaven did I just play that game... that was random, but boy... and girl... were you wrong. Today I'd like to relate Tetris to stress in life. So as you played that game you probably got a little stressed out as time went on. But don't worry soon you'll know how to make those stress blocks just disappear. Let's relate each block to stress. As we allow stress to build up and just do nothing about it, stress quickly buries us deep beneath all those blocks, however if we try our hardest to organize those stress blocks to coincide with everything else happening in our lives then eventually the stress will simply just disappear. In other words the way to eliminate our stress is by our choices. As hard times come our way, especially things we can't control, we must have the attitude that eventually all will work out and as our attitude changes, stress will change into joy. For me, personally, the more I have going for me, the more that is happening around me, the more that I'm being attacked, the more fun and joyful I am. Likewise a lot of times when I'm playing tetris the harder it gets the more fun it is, so since you probably have figured out by now that the best solution to combat stress is your attitude how about go make yourself happy and go play some more tetris!
Elder Dye and I were walking down the street the other day wondering how we can cope with each others sarcasm better when I started rambling on as I usually do about nothing. This is in essence what came out of my mouth which for now on will be known to Elder Dye and I as the parable of the dead bunnies.
One day a bunny was crossing the street when a car driving along the road hit it. The car realizing there was no way the bunny was alive left the bunny behind and continued driving off.
And finally on a third day another bunny was yet again crossing the street. A third man ran into this bunny slammed on his breaks and got out of the car seeing the bunny dead of the ground still gets out his knife and stabs the bunny in the head.
Knowing all three bunnies were dead on impact who did the right thing? Man 1, 2, or 3? As Elder Dye and I contemplated the gibberish of the words that I just spoke we realized that these dead bunnies did relate perfectly to our sarcasm as well as our trials in life. First how it relates to sarcasm: Man one hits or encounters someones rude sarcasm and just ignores it moving forward. Man two encounters this same sarcasm get's offended and goes out of his way to worry about what was said. Then man three not only encounters this sarcasm but he goes completely out of his way to end that of which bothered him most. Man one chose the best and most Christlike choice to move on. A better way of looking at this parable is how we face trials. Man one hits a trial and moves on. Man two hits a trial then goes back and doesn't learn seeing as he has to face that same trial again and Man three get's overly aggravated at his trials. We must be man one and just simply move on!
