Stress is GOOD

Well, the last week of the semester. I couldn't sleep last night. Maybe I managed to fall asleep when it started raining at 7am. But I had lesson at noon, so didn't sleep much. But here I am, still awake, 12 hours later, putting my thoughts into this blog.

Stress is GOOD. This semester, I have experienced stress levels never reached in the past five years. I cannot recall beyond the past five years how life was like. Maybe worse, maybe better. But let's leave that for a discussion in the future.

The stress was rather consistent. Not constant, but consistent. Constant is like, imagine a graph with y and x-axis. Then draw a horizontal line across in the middle of the graph. That's constant. Consistent, simple. Just imagine a Tangent graph. Lol. Not sine, not cosine, but Tangent. It peaks (to INFINITY) but it drops. So there's breather in this very stressful semester. But the stress peaks to INFINITY. You know, INFINITY, rotate the roman number 8 90 degrees. Left or right doesn't matter.

Okay, so why Stress is GOOD. Firstly, having been reaching the realms of relaxation, in Swiss, in X, in Bali, in Yogya, in Ubud, in Boracay, this stark contrasts actually forces me to re-evaluate items of my life that might not be so efficient. Or ideal.

Take dressmaking for example. It forces the issue of the inefficiency of the dressmaking school. How I can get so irritated due to the lack of focus from the teachers (as they are distracted by other students) and they miss out instructions on my sewing such that I have to redo multiple times. And sometimes there happen to be occasions I just sit at the centre waiting for my turn for the teacher to assess my work such that I can move on in my coursework. This is all okay when I have too much time to spare previously. Now that school stresses me out, I am forced to reevaluate their teachings. No matter, I learn very important design techniques and ideas from them to do fashion design. Unless I find an alternative way, i can only persist. But I will search for alternatives.

On another note, I learnt how much ballet meant to me. How it helped to strengthen my physical health, helping me cope with the stresses of life with a stronger body. It's awesome! Really.

And of course, most importantly, it is the stress that helps me learn even better. The stress that motivates me to improve and the stress that pressurises me to find the most efficient and creatively resolve any issues I face. Can you imagine, after a stressful 12 weeks and going, I'm still saying stress is good. It has done me well. Maybe, caused a few pounds, but that's a good thing too isn't it? ;P