Evolving to become the arm chair rulers of the world

It’s the latest buzz word in the media today …. Stress. It’s abnormal to go through a newspaper and not find a single article on stress. People say Stress kills reduces average lifespan and blah blah blah …. Little do people realize that stress has always been a part of the human race as for the matter all mammals and birds. Its not that suddenly humans are under stress after millions of years of evolution and natural selection, stress has always been a part of life , Its just that now we are so used to a laid back and relaxed lifestyle that even a slightest amount of discomfort annoys us. We fail to appreciate that stress is a part of the life and the very essence of our survival as a species.
That leaves us with one question, What’s all the fuss about the current research about “stress causes medical problems”??. Since I am no doctor I would like to give my interpretation of the issue and would further add by saying that I might be wrong. Let’s start off by comparing the life of an individual in the 1980’s vis-à-vis the life of a modern day homo sapiens. Back then (1980’s) life was a lot more difficult owning a car was restricted to a privileges few and modern day convenience of a mobile phone or a computer were still on the drawing board, all this meant life was like a car with a manual gear box which required some input before we got any output. Every time you wanted to give someone a message you had to either go to the person or got to a nearest telephone booth. Thus the human body got its daily workout just doing the daily job. Compare it today’s world where we have made life so convenient that things which took hours to do previously can be done at the press of a button. The whole world is at arm lengths distance from the individual. Since every thing can be done at the press of a button, we are confines to our cozy ergonomic chairs letting the machines do the dirty work.
So the million of years of human evolution of the human race has taken place so that we humans can just sit back in our chairs like spineless creatures and try to run the world through our grey cells. So what we are essentially witnessing is that humans are digging their own grave and evolving to de-evolve. That’s when the human body fights back and results in the so called stress.
So if you are feeling stressed out just take a 15minutes break and go for a short jog.