Would you choose a constantly stressful life or a stressless one?

Stress gives me a headache and makes my shoulder muscles turn into rocks. Nothing is worth that, given the small amount of time i actually feel decent these days...

I thrive on stress (and caffeine and nicotine)...I'd go nuts without them...

I enjoy the mental challenge of dealing with change. I'd rather take a "vacation" where I'm roaming through a foreign country exploring the back towns than one where I sit on a cruise ship.

So since you are defining stress as any change then I would want to be stressed. Change is not a bad or stressful thing.

I cannot answer this question, because it doesn't apply to me. Stress in my life is not created by change. I choose a life with as little stress as I can arrange and I do not thrive on conflict and pressure as some folks do, but neither do I want some dull little life in which nothing ever happens. Change is more likely to bring joy than stress, for me.

For some reason I enjoyed being stressed. Go figure!

I suppose a constantly stressful life. Stress creates conflict which in turn creates change. If something is causing stress then chances are it needs to be improved.

The question asks us to choose between being constantly stressed and never stressed, while the answers ask us to choose between constant stress or "very little" stress. Which one is it? Also, when you say to define stress as any change in your life, does that mean a life without stress would consist of continuing to sit here at my computer typing? Or that the general circumstances of my life (relationships, job, location) wouldn't change? I think I would probably prefer the life of constant stress, but neither choice sounds very appealing.

I already have a life with very little stress. I don't define change as stress, sorry, it's just not that way for me.

I though this question would create confusion, sorry. But stress is clinically defined by psychologists as a change. Things we often enjoy and like are stressful, whether you recognize this fact or not. I was just wondering if there were people out there who would prefer a life with many constants and iterations to one that is always changing and therefore stressful.

I would choose stress because stress = growth (among other things)

huh? going on vacation is stressful? it sounds like you are trying to define 'stressed' as 'not completely bored'.

Where'd you get the idea that going on vacation was stressful? Do you have kids or something?

the question is ill posed

If your life/thoughts/being is unchanging, you are stagnant and therefore pointless. (or already dead). you need to keep changing and learning and being. Even stepping back to assimilate what has gone before (i.e. being stagnant) would be a change and therefore stressful (by your definition).

"Life is Pain", "no pain, no gain", there's no escape. Really neither choice is likely or even possible. A balance is what we all want, though sometimes we struggle over control of that balance. Also, know that stress in an internal thing. We create stress inside ourselves.

stress can be a good motivator.. but given the 2 extremes, I'll opt for the no-stress life

Uh, this is a weird question. There are different kinds of stress, I think. I wouldn't want my life to be flat and unchanging, but I wouldn't want to be frustrated a lot, either. I'd like a life with lots of successful changes, where I strive to ever-higher peaks of accomplishment. 8)

I hate stress, it makes me tense and jumpy and cranky.

A life with very little stress would be boring. Life has lots of changes and that causes stress - some good and some bad

my life HAS been constantly stressed .. many changes, much worry, loads of happiness ... I wouldn't change it.

Given the definition of stress as change, I'd vote for a no stress life. If it weren't stressful I wouldn't need a vacation.

Change is Good For You. I think I would explode if I had no stress in my life.

Very little stress. That's my life. But I think stress it's only a mental thing, not a real one, you can avoid it if you don't care about...

Frazzled is bad, but dull is worse.

I hate absolutes.

Hey if going on a vacation is stressful then I would always want to be stressed out!!!

Although I find this definition of stress rather odd...

To quote a favorite student of mine: "What the hell kind of question is that?" 'You might as well say "I get what I want" means the same as "I want what I get"!' I would rather have a life that changes constantly, though not radically, so I guess I want a constantly stressful life in the context of this question... but really, come on!

A combination of both.

very little stress.