Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for August 15, 2023

I do, I swear I do…. but still … !!! shrug

Probably the #1 way.

Amen. Your own stuff is stressful enough.

Or stay in bed.

Funny, how those who are concerned with other peoples backyard seem to have the messiest one.

This is so true, Aunty.

And I can’t stress that enough!

I used to know someone who said “That’s not my area of responsibility” which caused him a lot less stress and more peace. That’s a good way to go.

I was told four years ago that my stress-free lifestyle had led to a very good blood pressure result. I was told I have “the blood pressure of a teenager”. I mentioned this on one of my Calvin and Hobbes posts and someone replied, “Then you’d better give it back.”

Proposed commandment: Thou shalt not stress others.

I’m occasionally asked “What do you do now that you’re retired?” My only semi-joking reply is, “I have 2 full time jobs. One is minding my own business which occupies me constantly. The other is doing whatever my wife tells me to do.” I’m pretty good at both jobs.

In the grand scheme of things there are about 8 billion things other people do that are none of my business. I will worry about a much smaller subset of things that do affect my life.

Leave me along……you are stressing me out…..They think they are helping.

Aunty, you mind you own business, problem is you also mind everyone else’s business.

True

I attended ALAnon for a few years and benefitted from it a great deal. Someone told me that the whole program could be summed up in the phrase "mind your own business! "

I was also told that the more involved you become in other people’s lives, the crazier your life becomes. I have seen proof of that concept time and time again.

Wise words. Words to live by. …and yet, there’s Facebook and Twitter(or whatever) earning a fortune makeing everybody’s business, everybody elses.

Truth in that.

Got that right

I don’t want to know.

I really don’t want to know…

Stress is a choice and what might cause stress are essential components to an active life.

But then you’ll stress out wondering what other people are doing /s.

I take multiple doses of stress relief everyday. She’s feline, 12 years old, weighs 13 pounds, and loves to nap in my lap.

Some days, Aunty, you are just a fount of wisdom.

it’s the folks poking their nose in my business that cause me stress, not the other way around…

my circus, my monkeys, and you are not the ringmaster, mind your own business