Stress

Stress is an interesting phenonminon. You can do something a hundred times, feel good about your ability then add a mixture of stress and suddenly this new found skill turns to mush. Now that in itself sucks, but now that you are struggling your stress peaks even more. Its like a self feeding virus you cant escape.

In my life I’ve been confronted with stress many times, giving presentations in class, performing for choir or plays, basically a lot of performace based stuff. As an adult its strangly easy to avoid performance based stress, there’s always a way out, sometimes its harder then just dealing with the stress but when you dont like stress you’ll move mountains to avoid it.

I’ve realised recently that I’m a mountain mover. Now, the stress I’ve felt recently doesnt compare to what stress I’ve felt in the past, its leagues above but with this intense stress I’ve felt the urge to move mountains to get away from it. Sitting here now its funny to even think about it, considering the mountains I needed to move just to be in this position, especially now the stress isn’t as present as its been the last few days. Thats the complexity of stress for you.

The reality is stress is a complex feeling. It feeda itself in many ways while also pushing us to our limits. Some of the greatest things I’ve ever done I did while pushing through stress. Despite its discomfort coming out if a stressful situation is empowering, if you come out a failure at least you’ve seen what true stress can do. If you come out successful you can take a deep breath and marvel in the path you’ve paved.

Push through stress, don’t worry about failure but don’t go down without a fight.