pourdeac
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I agree totally. Most so called stress is just manufactured by stupid expectations.I think a lot of what US citizens currently think of as stress is just more of the pussification of America. So you didn't get invited to your so-called-friend's party, or you don't have enough cash to afford the unlimited data plan for your iPhone, or the McRib got discontinued again. That's not stress, that's life. Sack up and shut up.
People stress over little things like you point out. Economically, everyone lives above their means so people either stress about not having enough or stress trying to make enough. They compare themselves to the uber rich and stress about being left behind when they have everything they need. Many expect cradle to grave health and economic security from the government and stress about simply taking responsibility. People manufacture societal issues for political reasons and then stress about it as if they are real problems. They then eat their way into spiraling depression and obesity....over nothing really.
Europeans lived centuries stressing over their neighbors attacking them and accept a more social form of government, having lived under kings for protection. They don't live in a litigation environment where everything they do is based on legal risk aversion. And they walk/bike all over the place so even if they do stress, they never get into that depression/obesity spiral.
Just my 0.02.