There has been talk about the benefits of a weighted blanket. It is supposed to comfort whoever drapes it around their shoulders. It is supposed provide a warm embrace as people tighten it close around their bodies.

Stress is like that. It is always their, on the verge of choking you. Instead of a warm hug, stress reaches out with a cold wrap of chaos that is constantly trying to weigh you down. Stress is a blanket. It takes everything you think of and covers it in doubt and turns your light into shadows that creep all around you.

Stress is a weighted blanket that brings no relief. It is two halves of a balanced day.

A weighted blanket allows you to sprawl on the sand.

The sun gently delivering a nice new tan.

People playing around you and smiles all around.

Waves in the distance provide the only sound.

Stress invites you for a closer look, beneath the waves hiding its hooks.

You go for a swim just to test the water, before the waves pull you under and breathing gets harder.

You try to get out but you struggle to float.

You look around but sometimes there's no boat.

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