It's not the easiest thing in the world to be able to relieve stress in our daily lives. There are so many things including love, determination, hard work, and perfection that people my age are striding for. Achieving any of the above requires a lot of pressure from externals like parents, teachers, and peers. Not only do these people push us, but we also stress our own selves out. We become so focused on everything being perfect that we forget why we're doing it in the first place. We lose sight of everything else going on in our lives and we tend to zone out our surroundings.
When I find myself stressed, I ask myself if it's really worth it. I try to remind myself that in 5, 10, or 20 years from now I won't even remember taking the test I stressed myself out about. After experiencing challenging predicaments causing growth, I look back and wonder why I stressed about something so small. I think the video did a sufficient job at reminding us to take a step back and look at our lives from a macro view rather than focusing on the minuscule things in our life.
If everyone practice taking a step back from situations, and calming down, or taking deep breaths, we would be able to center ourselves and refocus now hat truly matters in life.
I agree with this so much. We are always striving for perfection to make someone else in our life happy because of our accomplishments. But doing this only stresses us out even more. I know I do this. It causes so much stress that you get even more stressed which causes stress on stress on stress on stress. Its never ending. I agree with everyone having to change their point of view and not focus on the little things. Nice Job!!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how you brought up that people are “striding for perfection”. During this time, like you were saying everyone is extremely stressed out about SATs, grades and college applications. I believe sometimes people forget to center themselves and see what is realistic. I also enjoyed how you said you try to remind yourself that “in 20 years from now” you won’t even remember taking the test, that really helps me.
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