Anxiety: time to create awareness

      Anxiety is part and parcel of modern life. In our day-to-day life, each one of us feels and deals with anxiety more or less but when it becomes chronic, it is a real health hazard which invites heart palpitation , muscle weakness, shortness of breath, headache etc.
     We are living a fast -paced life . Many things are at our hand which we wouldn't dream a decade ago but still we are longing for more. We are always running after one materialistic gain to another. We are too busy to spend a moment at rest. A few days ago , in the morning , I was rushing to get ready for my office, when my six-year-old son came to me and told me that he had 'good news' for me. I asked what it was. He handed me a small, old toy car as a 'gift'! I said thanks to him and thought I would put the toy somewhere before leaving home when he would not be noticing but he was too careful not to let me go out of home without his gift so when I failed to dodge his attentive eyes and took that toy car in my pocket and went to my desk my colleagues gave me curious and asking look. I spent a less tense day because of that wonderful gift of my son which reminded me that life is also for play and be a child sometime.
      It is not all about cut-throat competition and worrying about deadlines. On my office desk, I have kept that gift as a souvenir of play fulness and being thankful for whatever I already have, In Chinese there is a beautiful saying- 'tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are'.