stress . gimme a break.

                    We are in the times of our lives where we lurk just about everywhere; where we seem to be slapdash earthlings just frolicking around and getting wherever we may get to. We are on the rising action of our existence. We discover new things, go for adventures, and try new stuffs. We go to school, mingle with friends, enter relationships and study, of course. We are on our teenage life and it seems to be the climax for many.

                One thing that can never be gone out of the scenery in the climax of our teenage extravaganza is the ever ubiquitous STRESS! Well, all of us experience strains most especially when we are still on the stage of our lives where we are just starting to learn about time management.

                As a teenager, I come across sundry stresses that can unquestionably affect my lifestyle. These stressors seem to be inexorable as I continue with my daily routine. My experience drives me to figure out what are the real stressors of a teenager. If I can decode them, maybe I can repel ‘em someday. With the help of my support system, I gathered infos about the major stressors of the teenage populace. Here they are..

1.       SCHOOL. Well, we all know that. School isn’t really that cool nowadays if not for our friends, right? Projects pile up; assignments are unending, quizzes, terror teachers, damn! School is referred to by many students as a- for wanting of a better term- living hell. Well what should I guess? I’m a student too. If not for my parents and friends and future why would I go and burn myself in a living hell? Haha. I’m beginning to be so mean here right. But that’s just the case. I’m just dealing with that. How can school inflict stress to the students? I think it just depend on the student, on their attitude towards school. Stress always goes with school. It’s stereotyped since ages ago. I think stress is really inevitable in school. Even teachers get it too. The only solution to get rid of stress in school is to master time management. Well, actually it’s the solution for all the cases of stress. Learn to balance things out not just study and study. Important thing too; never cram. (as if I don’t do it too! Irony eh? Haha) well, I just realized that cramming never helps. Have fun with school. That’s why you have friends. Mingle with them. Make learning fun thru your own special ways.

2.       PARENTS. Well well well. I guess you have it but you’re just keeping it secretly. You don’t have to hide that. I’m unleashing the parent-stress here now. Mom and dad sometimes expect so much from us that they overlooked our achievements and fail to appreciate them. They want us to be someone we never even thought of, or maybe they impose rules that you can hardly follow. Dad enforces strict laws at home that you can hardly breathe or move and Mom nags almost every minute plus the career that they impose on you. How can you escape that? Fleeing is never an answer. You can talk about it with your parents. But be sure to take it lightly. Speak when you know you have to but don’t just overdo it that they may think you don’t respect them already. Parents have heart too. Just let it out of them if you still can’t feel it.

3.       PEERS. You can say that again. Peers, friends, buddies, bffs, well whatever you call them they too are contributors of stress in your life. Well friends do give us effervescent jiffies but it’s not all the time. Admit it. There are just times when they let you do things you think you shouldn’t.  you indulge and give in, that’s what we call peer pressure. They stress you out when they confuse you with your decision. It’s when you run to them to ask for suggestions and advice and they give you wrong and different stuffs. They perturb you when you have to follow the rules they impose which you really find ‘not-so-you’. Well we all know this happens. Everywhere, anytime. If you just go on and endure with the ‘stress’, well you’re just prolonging the agony. Go tell them or if they really do no good to you, get rid of them, it doesn’t matter how many armies you’ve got with you. What matters most is that you know how to respect each other.

4.       RELATIONSHIPS. You can’t help it. You feel you’re so in love with your sweetheart that you go crazy and upset and you feel that the whole world is breaking apart when you undergo petty fights or worse, break ups. Or maybe the other way around. You begin to neglect your responsibilities because you corrupt too much time for that special someone. You keep thinking about how you’re going to be and your wishful thinking seems to be unstoppable already. Relationships never run out of problems. One important thing to hold back in our minds. To get rid of stress in relationships, learn to balance things out and give yourself some time too. Not just shower them off to your sweetheart. Never neglect responsibilities for they will only pile more stresses up. Learn to know your value in your relationship. Your partner would easily understand that you also have things to care of if he really loves you. Well if not, learn the art of letting go. Haha. To harsh? Well, just let him deal with your responsibilities too. Let him learn.

5.       MEAGER ALLOWANCE. Yes or yes? Am I right or am I right? Haha. It’s totally patent. You have only limited allowance for fare and a little snack and you still have small payments in class for photocopies or charities or whatever. You’re trying so hard to save even the last coins of your allowance but the class payments would just exhaust them off. Plus you still set aside a little amount for your load. You’re trying really hard to save for the latest Basque at the front of the shop window but you just can’t because your savings would magically disappear in your pocket. You can’t buy what you want and sometimes what you need because your allowance isn’t just sufficient. Well you have a thing for that. You can go and tell mom and dad. Or- you should better understand the crisis of our economy today.

There are really star-count stresses existing in our asylum. They become so insurmountable that they make the world go crazy. Well I think we just have to be connoisseurs of stress. If there’s only a subject that teaches us how to control and manage stress, I know it’s gonna be a hit subject for all time. Want to know a thing? Just writing this blog makes me stressed already! Just thinking about what causes stress for us makes me stressed! Woah! Stress is becoming normal and part of our everyday routine. What can we do? It’s ubiquitous.  Just learn to manage your time. Learn to manage stress, until it stresses you no more. :]