Sometimes when things seem to be completely overwhelming, we stress ourselves out. And when we stress ourselves out, it can lead to tearing ourselves apart. We doubt. We doubt ourselves, our ability to complete whatever it is we have, and we doubt time. Nothing in life is in our control when stress consumes us. Time flies by and we seem to get nothing done, and the list never grows smaller. Can’t seem to work through the stress when you’re overanalyzing every single thing. When we don’t know the answer to something, we freak out.
Breathe. Breathe, damn it.
Inhale deeply, let it out slow and steady.
Feel the chills run down your body, let your head rock back, close your eyes.
Three minutes pass, it feels like three seconds pass. Four minutes, four seconds. When we’re stressed, everything seems to be a huge problem. Especially the clock. It’s a four digited line, tormenting the mind. It laughs. As each minute passes, it smiles in a different way, the colon as eyes and the number following glimmering in its selfish power to change the sequence of numbers, eventually starting the process over again after each hour has passed. Damn time, damn stress. Trust. Quit the tearing apart, influencing yourself to believe it can’t be done.
BREATHE.
It can be done. Because if you really think about it, what motivates us more than time? It keeps us on track with what we have to do, where we need to be. The same goes with stress. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to feel. We’re so complex. We have these abilities to experience so many emotions and be the master of them.
We really can’t let them overwhelm us. We have to resist the urge to let them overwhelm us to the point of stressing out, freaking out, and just let it all go. Let the time pass as it may. We should be able to have a trust in ourselves and our abilities to complete anything that comes our way. It’s tied in with confidence. We have to be confident in our abilities and know when and how to deal with problems or conflicts that arise. Doubt lacks confidence. Stress lacks trust.
We lack much more when we have such a tunneled vision of what can and can’t be done. Just breathe and work it out.
Breathe.
