Honestly, approaching this topic has been quite hard for me for a couple of reasons. One of the reason being because i have so many things to say but don't even know where to start from, and moreover, i am so tired and stressed out at the moment, my head is banging so hard from today's stress. The initial plan was to ghost this particular topic this weekly, and that mainly because i wasn't really feeling it, but after the whole stress i went through today, i just had to hop on it to say my piece...
As humans, stress is one of the constant factors we have to deal with for the whole of our lives. Life itself is very stressful, not to talk more of the nonstop hurdles and challenges we have to face everyday to achieve our respective life goals. The bitter truth is that, as humans, we can't avoid stress neither can be escape it, everything about life is stressful. The moment you are born in a country like ours, your stressful days has begun. The older we get, the more the stress we have to face in our daily lives. There's no running away from it. It is something we have to have to face at some point in our journey of life. Stress is unavoidable, but it can definitely be managed...
As a writer, i hate being stressed, both physically and mentally. When i am physically stressed, it affects my productivity and activity as a writer, likewise that of mental stress. If only stress could be deleted from life. Don't you think life would be much better and easier without it. The bitter truth is stress is one hundred percent unavoidable. it's a must-to-go through phase in life. The good news is that although it can't be avoided, there's always a way to manage it, and that's based on our respective choices...
AVOIDING STRESS...
Stress is one hundred percent unavoidable, especially in a country like mine, lol. As long as you have air moving to and fro in your lung, you can't avoid stress, you can only manage it. If you are now a nigeria citizen, your stressful life will be 10x that of any other normal humans out there in other countries, and that's because our country itself is the best definition of STRESS...
If there's one big thing i have come to understand about life in the last couple of decades, it's the fact that success takes a whole lot of hard work, consistency and dedication. And to achieve this, one need to pass through different levels of stress, and that levels of stress is what we call the stages. The bigger the dreams, the bigger the level of stress you have to have to pass through to make that dream(s) achievable...
Whatever is worth achieving in life must come with one form of stress or the other, if you don't know that, know it now. You need to go through different level of stress to achieve something great. If you choose to avoid anything that has to do with stress, you will never be able to get anything done in life, AND that's because stress is part of life...
Striking a balance is the best approach to making best out of life. Learn to manage the stress that comes with living. Since stress is unavoidable, the best solution to making it work is managing it. There are different ways to manage stress, i manage mine by relaxing, sleeping and streaming movies. This has been my trick to managing stress, and so far it's been working wonders. The earlier you accept it, the better it is for you to make every moment count...
In conclusion, as humans, it is impossible to avoid stress. Find what works for you, utilize it, and then you will see how different life can be. Take the first step now...
THANKS FOR READING...