The Jungle Analogy - The Stress Junkie

Stress junkies, vegetarian T-Rexes, always searching for a deadline.

The modern world is considered to be a jungle. The weakest animal perishes. But while there are those who literally fight for survival, roaming the streets, hunting for dead-end jobs to maintain the entire pack's integrity, there are also predators, the T-Rex clan, that mainly hunt for sport, preying on the weak.

And while these two species engage in daily battle, a new one emerges, a vegetarian T-Rex that in spite of its hunter trait, does not see the appeal in fighting the feeble. This special predator lusts for another kind of combat. And so it begins... the endless crusade of the stress junkie. Constantly searching for deadlines, this very unique animal, is empowered by stress. What the rest consider to be a panic attack, needed to be dulled by medication and the relocation to a spa, to the junkie it is no more than something to drive him further in this war.

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For those who can't seem to have encountered one of these rare creatures, they are the ones you see running on the streets, giant espresso in one hand, a stack of papers in the other. Talking on the phone or just mumbling to themselves, bullet - pointing things to do, they seem harmless... And they are...that is, unless you are the one in front of them,  pondering for too long on what toppings the barista should put on your triple decaf non-fat latte.

If this happens, you should avoid eye contact and leave, as coffee is more to them than a warm liquid dessert on chilly mornings...it's a necessity, a nourishment, basically food. Ignoring this advice, you might have them turn into full mode, dark-blooded, weak-preying T-Rexes. This is not a fight you could win. 

The stress-affinity mutation in their genome allows their powers to reach a superhuman level. With a small amount of rest needed and a blood stream saturated with caffeine, the vegetarian T-Rex is a formidable opponent. In its endless swimming through stressful situations, that might seem unsolvable to others, this breed is constantly evolving. It's surpassing even its meat-eating brothers, too obtuse to see that the constant flow of easy-to-prey-on herbivores leads in losing  their capacity to fight.