Stress, as a college student is something I deal with on a daily basis. Stress from homework, and what do I want to do with my life, to having bills like the electricity which I’ve never had to pay for before. Life is stressful because we push ourselves to the point where we are overworked, underappreciated, and tired. Which leaves you stressed out wondering how you’re gonna be able to keep up this pace that you’ve set for yourself. My stressors come from money, school, and family. I am working at Victoria’s Secret and have been for over a year. It is retail and I have been worked and worked. This is a major stress because it just puts more pressure on me with my schooling. Which in return creates a snowball effect because my family gets on me about doing good in school, and that makes me focus on school, which sometimes can be hard to focus on. Stress is like the snowball effect. Once one thing goes wrong I go into a panic type of state, and need to catch up, but by freaking out I get behind in more than just one thing. Everyone has stressors in their lives, mine are money, family, and school.
Money, one thing that everyone in the world worries about. Being a college student on a budget I worry about it a lot. Money is one thing that everyone knows can create a lot of stress. My way of coping with this stress is by relaxing, taking a deep breath and then going through bills to figuring out where my money went. My dad always ends up helping me figure out where it all when and then giving me more money so that I don’t worry and stress over it so I can focus on school. He knows I hate asking anyone for money so he knows when I do ask him its because I need it. He makes me stop crying, take a deep breath, hold it in, let it out and relax. It helps because that’s what he’s always told me. When I was little and skinned my knee or cried over something stupid, he was always there to tell me to take a deep breath and relax. So for me that is the best way for me to stop stressing over money. This shows that my family is very important to me and that the values my parents have taught me are being shown in my actions. Parents always say come to me with any problem. Me being able to cry to my father about my bad spending habits shows that my family and I have a very healthy and strong relationship.
My family is another stress in my life. We are all very close and very important to each other but when I come home for vacation or holidays it is so hard on everyone. I am a very free spirit, and go out at the most random of times. Being home my parents try to instill the same rules they had for me when I lived at home. Its hard because I want to go out and have fun with my friends who I almost never get to see. It’s never easy to say when I’m gonna be home or even if I’m gonna be home. It’s stressful because I want to please everyone, but I want to go out with my friends. Coping with this one is different. Most of the time when they say be home by 2, I’m usually not even going out til 11 or so anyway. Usually I just don’t come home, come in the morning, or when ever the party is over. My grandparents on my fathers side are another story! They live in Massachusetts so I see them about once a year. They forget that I’m no longer 13. Which is so hard for me to deal with. I stress over that one too much, that is one of the only things I stress about when I go there on vacation, dealing with the belittling, and condescending tone and conversations. I usually just walk away, which is rude and have to apologize later, but sometimes I think I might lose it in front of them. I’m not very patience person even with family. Walking away usually works, or just thinking about how much I really do love them, how they really are so important and they are just trying to the best that they can. I think that shows that my family is very important to me. That I can let things go and not take anything hurtful to heart.
School is also another very big stressor in my life. With all the classes and constant work, can sometimes be very stressful. Also the question of what do you want to do after school comes up. That is my most hated question. I’m in college to get a better idea of what I want to do. People asking only makes me more scared which becomes stress for me. Juggling my classes and my work load can sometimes just be so overwhelming. My parents are always there for me to cry to and scream to when my work has me scheduled me days I’ve got school or 40 hours a week when I’m a part time associate. My coping skills come from my parents. My dad has always been a very composed man and if he’s stressed out, I would never know. He has helped me try to be less stressful. My mom is someone who lets her emotions known to the world. So when she’s a little stressed out you know it. This is where I’ve learned my coping skills. I watched and learned from both my parents. I believe they did a pretty good job. It is not all that easy to get me stressed out but when I do it’s like all the stress I’ve ever felt comes out. The bottled up feelings and stress gets so intense that I burst. My parents are always there for me. This is something that I think is very important and helps my sense of balance with my life in general and in school.
Parents are what shape the child. Parents do the best they know how to raise a child. I believe that my parents did a great job. My background influences with stress are great. My mother and my sister are very anxious and get stressed out about the littlest thing; I have friends who are the exact same. I think the fact that the things that do bother me are real issues and aren’t just petty silly things. I have a good sense of balance in my life. My values are very well balanced. I know what is truly important and what just isn’t worth wasting the energy on. I am trying to step back and look at each and every situation that involves extreme emotion, like anger, sadness, and stressfulness. Is it really that important? That energy could be spent smiling and laughing with friends later. Is it worth wasting on the fact that I’ve got an over load of emails and voice mails? I think that worrying about how many emails we receive isn’t as big of a deal as this article says it is. Receiving thirty emails and eighteen inter-office mail items is a bit over the top. In the end it’s not worth it.

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