“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe, and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”
-Shayne McClendon
I chose to write this quote because it has really motivated and inspired me during my college years. After school, one of the most important journeys in life is college. This is really important because it shapes your future and defines who you are going to be as a professional. To achieve goals as a professional, people might go through a lot of stress and face a lot of problems. Stress can be defined as an emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. This can really affect a person’s mental health and tranquility, and even cause depression. It is really important to learn to control stress, so you can achieve your goals in an emotionally stable state. At the end when you become a professional, all the sacrifices and struggles are worth it, and you live a better life.
Personally, I have experienced this feeling of too much stress because of college and my personal life and it has been one of my most challenging journeys. Ever since I started college, I’ve never had a normal educational year. In my first year, I experienced a strike. Because of this strike, we were without classes for almost 3 months. This gave me a lot of stress because I didn’t know what was going to happen with my education and future. When we finally came back, the greatest hurricane of all time hit the place I live at and classes were obviously cancelled again. After this, my life became surrounded by stress. My family was very bad economically because of the hurricane and I needed to start working. We didn’t have water, nor much food and people were going crazy. After some time, the university decided to open even though some people didn’t even have houses. As you imagine, this was my worst semester by far. I had a lot of college work and exams, I needed to work every day, there was little amounts of food and water, traffic was horrible every day and life just got a whole lot complicated and harder. I used to cry every night because I could not handle the stress and I went into a great depression because I was failing. I started to treat people badly for no reason and I wasn’t as nice and polite as I used to. Stress consumed me in a way I could not live with myself and I thought everyday of giving up and dropping out of college. With time and doctors, I learned to handle the stress and life got better and easier. But, I can say the most important tool that got me through this was my perseverance. Every time I thought about giving up, I then remembered the future I wanted and how my mom always taught me to be perseverant to reach my goals, and that motivated me to keep trying. Now I am one step closer to reaching my goal and I could not be prouder of myself. As you can see, achieving your goals is not always easy or perfect, you can face problems and struggles but at the end it is all worth it. I dream every day of the day I finally become the professional I want and be completely happy, just like my mother.
Bon voyage 