Since a trip to Ottawa where a friend expressed concerns over my stress, I have been paying attention to situations that act as indicators for my stress handling, and I thought I'd share some of them. (Check means I passed it positively :D)
- Travel to a foreign city where (at first) you feel like you can't understand anything: check!
- Sit on a bus with a crying baby and remain calm and pleasant, even internally: check!
- Realise you have no Internet access the day you have to submit a major final assignment for your course and take it in stride: check!
- Help comfort an old lady (a relative) as a close friend of hers dies of terminal cancer over three days: check!
- Miss a bus and have to wait for 30 more minutes, in the rain, without an umbrella, and remain happy, and enjoy the rain: check! (especially important if you usually claim to enjoy the rain)
- Be desperately short on money and not know how to make ends meet, and just be productive instead of terrified: check! (things worked out anyway, for your information)
- Realise the burger you've just bitten into is not the veggie burger you requested, and remain polite about it as you find a non-digestive way to dispose of the meat in your mouth: check!
- Try to find your way to the Arboretum Plant Sale without signs and follow multiple people's directions and end up on the wrong side of the arboretum and then RUN across it: che-, er, partial fail. My initial reaction was growing frustration that there simply weren't any signs, and that people were volunteering directions that were wrong; detecting it, though, I resorted to appreciating the exercise and the beautiful scene :D
- Wake up and realise you've been kidnapped by Bolivian terrorists who want access to source code you never wrote so they can seize control of a microwaves across the world: check!
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