The "How stressed can I be?” Contest

Religion-Outside-The-Box originally ran this contest when it only had a few hundred people on the mailing list. I’m thinking that now that there are more members, we ought to run this is utterly sarcastic spiritual contest again.

The contest is this easy, the person who is the most stressed wins.

Simply use this convenient scale to calculate how many different stress-filled events you’ve managed to simultaneously survive over the last 12 months. (You can add additional points if you’ve had multiple experiences of an event.) Or just be creative and calculate your stress according to your own scale.

Stress-filled events may include, but are not limited to:

· Worry

· Change

· Responsibility

· Trouble

· Illness

Total all your applicable stressors and e-mail me with your point total

Grand prize: Perverse satisfaction & pity.

Runner-up prize: More stress because you didn't win.

Note: Artificially inflating your stress for the purpose of winning this contest is strictly frowned upon and may result in disqualification.

Spiritual-religious advice: Take it easy on yourself... or, chance winning this contest.