Don’t Get Stressed Over What You Don’t Know

Let me put it succinctly, there are many things you think you know, but you don’t.  If you were honest with yourself, if you weren’t so quick to believe what is said or posted by Whoever, you might cut your stress.

For example, I know, for a fact, that many Jamaicans are being rounded up and deported.  They haven’t done anything, it is just part of the Trump ‘make America White again’.

I know because someone in New York City pinched me, I know because the Police told me that they were getting deportees ‘who hadn’t done anything’, and it came over the Television tonight and the implementation of particular governmental policies and agencies was announced.

I would never have mentioned it, if I didn’t have proof.

For me, proof has to be ‘I see’.   It can’t be ‘me hearsay’ or ‘dem seh’ or being printed by a news service I don’t know.   For me, Proof means I can walk into Court and swear.

As so many people run their mouths like toilets with a broken flushometer, when I have to reveal something I will begin with, ‘I was Physically there when…”   this means no one ‘told me seh’,  I saw. I heard.

When passing on information I will begin with, “Shrimpie told me that….”   and repeat what Shrimpie told me without any notation, unless, UNLESS, I can verify some of it.

Too often people hear something unofficially and run with it, disrupting their lives, causing chaos, and often loss.   When someone tries to shine some light in their darkness, they cling to their unofficial version as if it were given on Mount Sinai.

This is what causes stress.  This ‘black hole’ of information.

Take hurricanes.

The Government does it’s very best to terrify the community.  They get their information from some Weather Site which is less reliable than Grandma’s bunions.

On two major occasions, one in 2010 and one in 2016, I knew that the hurricanes would not hit Jamaica because I went to boatus.com.

This is an Insurance site.  The company that runs this site insures yachts.  It is their pocket.  If they are wrong and tell you to move your Million dollar yacht from Port Royal to Manchester, and that hurricane doesn’t hit Port Royal, then that customer is going to demand costs.  Contrarily, if they say the hurricane isn’t going to strike Port Royal and it does, well you know it is their pocket.

Hence boatus.com is as accurate as humans can be, because it is their pocket. And if I tell you the hurricane will miss because boatus said so, you can pretty much put your pot on the fire.

I know a bunch of girls who were so terrified by what the news was telling them they probably shaved years off of their lives.

What you have to do is take a deep breath and consider the information you receive.  Don’t accept it on face value.  Do your investigations.   Check it.  If more people checked the source of their information, more people would not be fooled.

Before you panic, before you worry, take a breath and search the source.  In many cases, what you are so worried about isn’t true.