Tension

There is good tension and bad tension I guess. In materials like concrete they use tension to help create things like those circular rising driveways that you find in parking garages. The bow in archery wouldn't work without tension. The surface of water is smooth and flat because of its tension which is called the meniscus I believe. But there is also bad tension and that tends to be of the human variety. Tension of the human variety can make life pretty difficult. We tend to see it when our routines are changed on us. Or when it is either extremely cold or extremely hot. We see it when people are getting worn down and don't get a lot of sleep. This kind of tension tends to reap less than desirable results. In fact sometimes the rests are downright awful. On our site there is currently a lot of tension. It is hot generally and very humid. As the job winds down and guys are sent their various directions those left are filled with uncertainty. When guys leave en mass as they have the people who used to hang out with them now have their routines changed drastically with the loss of their comrades. So our job site is experiencing serious tension which is flowing back and forth around the site like a summer grass fire burning here and now there. I think at times like these we have to recognize both the conditions and the symptoms in order to get through in one piece and still smiling. If you know people are going to be affected in this way when they react in a way completely out of character for them one needs to say to themself 'maybe this person is reacting like this because of the heat, stress, oncoming bronchitis caused by the air conditioning or whatever.' And then we need to let it go and to carry on. Hopefully that person will calm down at some point and, reflecting on the relationship you have had up until the blowout, know that they have over reacted by a large margin. If not so be it. Carry on with a happy heart and a smile on your face. We really do make the weather that we live in. I choose sunny days. :)