Dealing with Stress

Our Father,
art thou in Heaven?
Doth it exist? What be thy name?
To thy kingdom I will come
if my essay is not done
for there is no failure in heaven.

Grant me an A and some bread,
forgive me my profanity,
as you forgive others who profane against stress,
and lead me not into temptation to drop out or procrastinate,
and please deliver me from Facebook and all other evil social networking sites.

Amen.


It has come to this, then, the rewriting and modification of the Our Father in order to fit it in with my current mode of thinking due to my high stress levels. And they should not be this high, asks you, considering I have been writing an essay a day?

Well, theoretically you are indeed correct, my fellow reader. However I have gone, as of today, nine days without writing an essay. That means that I have to catch up on writing nine times. Nine times the initial work that I had planned to be sprawled out. Nine times the stress, on top of other work that I must finish in this busy semester for uni so as to not have to repeat an entire year.

I stumbled upon the above video whilst scrolling through - yes - Facebook. I had promised myself that I would not do any scrolling through this book of faces, however I had broken that promise and from the breaking of it, found a video that I would watch a quarter of and throw out of my mind and onto this post. 

The entire four minutes, all I could think about was how many lies this woman told to herself in order for her to be up there lying to everybody else. There is no way, no way that stress can ever be anybody's friend. I have been well acquainted with this 'stress' fellow on numerous occasions, and I maintain that stress is no friend.

In fact, stress visits me so often that I have no time for any other visitors. Stress is, instead of a friend, an impeding, clingy leech that seeks to suck on your happiness. Do not let it. And most importantly, do not attempt to befriend it. There are more productive things to befriend, such as the latest blockbuster.