The Soul Killer

We are smart, strong, in demand, career-oriented.

We want to do things on our own. We will never admit that we can’t.

We have everything under control. 

Yes, we actually do, because we are superwoman of today’s time. We go through stress, exhaustion and overworking experiences; all the symptoms of a successful woman.  But these make us unwell too. Well, it’s just the Hurried Woman’s Syndrome. There's nothing really life-threatening about it, only life-changing.  

We’re obsessed about living in the age of rage. Women who do too many things at once in roadrunner pace – juggling work with hectic home environment and complicated social life – go through chronic stress, weight gain, sleep problems, weariness, guilt, crankiness. We can still do excellent job, but we probably won’t enjoy it and so are the people around us. We are miserable, burnt out slave to time so we try other coping mechanism like partying, shopping, eating and drinking a lot, taking drugs—anything to anesthetize the pain of stress, and then we will end up tired and strained. 

Poor concentration, high blood pressure and even constant irritability are actually meant to slow us down. Hurried Woman’s Syndrome may not kill us but it can kill our heart and eat at our quality of life. We need a real quiet time. It’s one of the oldest and yet most effective “medicines” in the world: down time. Downshift from a life of hurry to a life of slow. Sit in the quiet of the night – no TV, no Facebook, no cellphone – then drift into the calmest and deepest sleep. Most of the women are suffering from Hurried Woman’s Syndrome, because most of them are too strong to ask for a cure. Take time to breathe and smell the sweetness of life. Relax.