May The Fourth Be With You!!

Okay, so maybe this post isn't about Star Wars, but who can resist that pun?

Stress: the body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.

Signs of stress being:

- Staying up till stupid o'clock to finish coursework
- Banging your head on the desk until unconscious
- Holding your revision at arms length whilst shouting 'WHAT ARE YOU???'

Nowadays that seems to be all my life is full of. Every waking minute I have my ICT teacher breathing down my neck, pressuring me for work I have already produced, deducting stupid amounts of marks for forgetting the hyphens in 'one-to-many relationship' once. Not to mention the amount of numbers I have to analyse, blaring from my screen: mountains upon mountains of Olympic running times for my statistics coursework. Then people tell me to 'relax'!

Tell me. How do you expect me to 'relax'?

know GCSE's aren't meant to be that big of a deal and that A levels are meant to be 'a lot more important' but they are to me. I can't seem to help but want to succeed in life. I don't know whether or not it's some sub-concious need to please people or whether it's just instinct. But in a way (a really weird way mind!) stressing out over these sort of things IS my way of relaxing. I know that if I actually relax in the proper way things would never get done and I'd just end up watching Lord of the Rings back to back or enjoy a Big Bang Theory marathon. Stress is good for you. No matter what they say! Stress somehow manages to get everything done.