Stress

I'm sure there is good stress and bad stress. For example, a certain level of stress keeps you agile, on your feet and concentrating on the job at hand. But there is also bad stress, where you constantly obsess about your work and exhaust yourself to the point of not being able to work at all. And adults are constantly stressed out about something or the other. Bills, mortgages, relationships, kids, jobs, divorce, alimony, taxes, stocks, loans, profits, losses, bankruptcy, personal health... to a name a few well known sources of stress. I've known people who can handle stress very well i.e they are very calm both inside and out or have become very adept in pretending to be calm; and I have known people who cannot handle stress at all. However, there is a third group of people who fall somewhere in the middle - they can handle some sorts of stress but will totally lose all reason to some other forms. This is the group of people who have it the worst and this is where I fall. The reason they have the most trouble is because they are unaware of the domains of stress they can and cannot deal with. Consequently, all stressful situations catch them off guard and their reaction to it is quite spontaneous. Nevertheless, the funniest group of people are the one's that stress about stress. "Man ! I can't believe I have to stay up all night to study for the test tomorrow." The aforementioned sentence is a classic example of stressing about stress - the person is stressing out right now, because of a stress that he/she has to deal with later on. I don't quite remember where I was going with this but I just decided to document these observations. Well, its time to go to class and I hate Humphrey Bogart - no wonder the movie is called "THE BIG SLEEP! "