The Art of handling stress

This morning I was standing in line with every other student in the Drama department waiting for my lottery number to be called to sign up for rooms to rehearse in. This process was taking a long time this morning and someone from near the back of the line got upset and said "Hurry up we all have better places to be".

I am sure this person is under alot of stress and therefore has a short fuse but I just felt that we were all in line for the same purpose this morning and most importantly we are all under an immense amount of stress.

As students who have to attend class, write papers, work, volunteer and on top of that rehearse hours and hours outside of class for all of our classes we have an unbelievably busy next few weeks.

I used to let stress really build up inside of me and then snap on people, roomates, siblings, peers and parents when they had done nothing wrong. I went through a bit of an epiphany last year when I was feeling this stress and my roommate said, this too shall pass. I saw in Nick's post that he had written this and it reminded me of this moment.

We all have stress and deadlines but it shows true character when we take the high road and realize that this too shall pass and that it isn't the world's problem that we live such complicated lives. Positivity has really been key to my ability to manage my stress. If I feel overwhelmed I just remember that I have the oppurtunity to be this stressed out about these things as opposed to being stressed out about finding clean water or affording rent next month.

I wish every person in the Drama department would just keep in mind that we are all in the same boat and take the time to smile at each other to remind everyone that we are here for each other.

I love that our class seems to have a relationship of support where we all realize we have tons to do but also always put the effort in to contribute to the group.

Enough of this peace and love talk, I just want to add that I appreciate all of you and wish you luck in this next few weeks, see you all tomorrow for work time.

Kelsey