It's Stressful

 Success is stressful, which is why often successful people smoke, whether it is cigars or cigarettes.  I read this recently, which is why success is for the young at heart.  In older age successful people can rest on their laurels.  It's why so many smoked back in the day.  A now retired Hall of Fame football player was suspended more than once for cannabis use.  He now owns cannabis stores across the US.

But he now says back in his playing days the NFL suspended players for using cannabis.  He said he couldn't handle the stress or the pain without it.  He says now the NFL is recognizing the benefits of cannabis and no longer suspends players for using it.  He says today many coaches and players are advocates for cannabis and some players use it before and after games even in the locker rooms.

He says this is how much the game has changed.  It's for both stress and pain magement.  And the NFL now looks the other way when players use it.  He says he used to speak against it when using it, but now he advocates for it stressing it's importance to players and coaches.  He advocates for it even to high schools and coaches helping others to understand why it's so important today.

I'm not advocating for cannabis use here, but understand the relaxing benefits of smoking a pipe.  I have stresses in other ways related to how I see life from the perspective of a Spiritual person.  I've never used cannabis and I could be an evangelist for smoking a pipe.  But I do neither.  I smoke a pipe to alleviate stress I feel in regard to how I think and for me, it lowers my BP.

But I can't say it would do the same for everyone else.  My reasoning is directly related to my Spirituality and that is about all I can say about it.  I COULD be smoking Canabis, but I don't.  I have a problem with any drug other than nicotine.  But this is me.  I didn't have a problem smoking a pipe when I took it up fifty years ago.

I kind of dabbled in the hobby, but began to take it seriously back in the early 80's.  But I never did smoke anything but tobacco.  I find the way I believe about Life to be stressful, but I deal with it only with a pipe and tobacco.  Today it is my Nording Number 2 pipe with some Old Professor and my coffee this morning is 365 Hometown Blend City Roast.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.  

Dave