Ambience
Ambient Stress and Ambience Aesthetics
Was your last post Aesthetic? Did it have the right amount of blurriness, warm colours and heart/black and white filters? Mine was just slay.
Aesthetics are well and good on the gram. They aren’t bad in life either. But Ambient Aesthetics….. and Ambient Stress, well that’s a different matter altogether. Google says Ambient stressors are low-grade, global stressors that are part of the background environment. I say they are an eternal pain in the a**. For example, the most famous one is WEATHER.
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Living in India, the weather is no friend of mine. I’m sure other countries have other problems related to weather itself. I mean only today I wore my photochromatic glasses ( the ones that become sunglasses in the sun ) , because the sun was slapping me yesterday. Guess what? it started drizzling. Last month, one Monday, the whole of Mumbai was flooded. The next day there wasn’t a drop of rain to be found…. the Air conditioners deserved bonuses for their work that day. You would notice that none of my weather complaints are related to cold. That’s coz there is no cold. Winter is practically non existent at this point. How could someone not get sick in such conditions?
Ambient stress is also that deadline I have that is actually due next year, but it’s so important to me that I can’t forget about it. It’s also the situationship I am in. You can see the range. In my opinion, this is the most killer form of stress that exists…. like the anaconda of snakes… no, the viper….. actually no the rattle snake… wait aren’t those harmless….. It’s the Megalodon. Yes, sorry, I know my prospects in zoology aren’t that great.
What bothers me is that journaling or practicing hobbies or talking about doesn’t seem to work for Ambient stressors… at least not for me. How do I fight with weather? How do I kill my feelings? and How do I stop my mom from nagging me? (Kidding, I love her). I guess by adapting. Let’s brainstorm that in the comments…. keeping this short so that the comments can continue….. help me out.
Love, Ri.
