Keep stress in perspective
THE LAND, JUNE 28, 2013
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In view of this most challenging spring to serve as a warning to others. for farmers everywhere (except the fortu• Never buy a car you can’t push. nate few in some garden spots), a lesson • Never put both feet in your mouth at on stress is my contribution this time. I’m the same time, because then you won’t not pretending to be a psychiatrist, but I have a leg to stand on. am good at picking up and passing along items from Cyberspace. So please do read • Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. on, especially if you are a recent high Just get up and dance. school graduate. • Since it’s the early worm that gets A young lady confidently walked around eaten by the bird, sleep late. LAND MINDS the room with a raised glass of water • The second mouse gets the cheese. while discussing stress management to By Dick Hagen • When everything’s coming your way, her audience. Everyone knew she was you’re in the wrong lane. going to ask the ultimate question, “half empty or half full?” She fooled them all. • Birthdays are good for you. The Instead she asked, “How heavy is this more you have, the longer you live. glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 8 • Some mistakes are too much fun to make only ounces to 20 ounces. once. She replied, “the absolute weight doesn’t matter. It • A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the depends on how long I hold it. If only for a minute, scenery on a detour. that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. • Have an awesome day and know If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to that someone has thought about you call an ambulance. In each case it’s today. So each the same weight, but the longer I And most importantly ... evening put hold it, the heavier it becomes.” • Save the earth — it’s the only down all your She continued, “and that’s the way planet with chocolate. I think! burdens. Don’t it is with stress. If we carry our burThis sums it up neatly: Be the kind carry them into dens all the time, sooner or later, as of person that when your feet hit the the burden becomes increasingly the night. Let floor each morning the devil says — heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. them wait until “Oh crap, he’s/she’s up!” “As with the glass of water, you tomorrow. And Welcome to ‘your’ world have to put it down for a while and recognize these High school graduations stole the rest before holding it again. When lessons of life. headlines earlier this month. I we’re refreshed, we can carry on applaud you new “citizen of the real with the burden — holding stress world.” Little do you realize that in longer and better each time practiced.” just a few years it will be your decisions shaping the So each evening put down all your burdens. Don’t destiny of your communities, your state, even your carry them into the night. Let them wait until tomor- nation. We’re presenting you with an incredible chalrow. And recognize these lessons of life. lenge and a “bankruptcy legacy” that will continue to • Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon, haunt indefinitely. and some days you’re the statue. We’re brazenly accepting an entitlement society • Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in that only feeds upon itself. Yet in another 30 years case you have to eat them. this world will have ballooned from 7 1/2 billion per• Always read stuff that will make you look good if sons to 9 billion. And the biggest growth will be among the “under privileged” of China, India, Africa, you die in the middle of it. even Brazil that rapidly are moving into better • Drive carefully ... it’s not only cars that can be incomes, better diets, a desire for a better education recalled by their maker. for their children and a free-market economy for • If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to their farmers. be vague. What then? Graduates of 2013, it will be your ball• If you lend someone $20 and never see that per- game. Take charge. You can’t mess up any more than we current participants. son again, it was probably worth it.
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• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
5A-8A — World Pork Expo offers swine producers the latest and greatest for their operation
See MINDS, pg. 4
9A — Soils short course allows students to really dig into the subject 11A — ‘From the Fields’ farmers find it tough going, but all in the same boat 1F-12F — The Land’s Fair-Goer’s Guide