How to survive stress

            The biggest stress in my life right now is meeting people and how I have no time to do that. I have never been good at making friends, and I’m on the field hockey team at Southern, which consumes all of my time. I’m not allowed to go out, which is what? The number one thing college students want to do, and even if I could, I’m gone every weekend at a game. Two months into my freshman year and I haven’t made a friend.  These are a few things I have done through out the years to relieve some stress

Sleep through out the day, there’s nothing wrong with an afternoon nap. Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays I am done with my classes at 11, and I don’t have practice until 2:30, so it take a nap. Its only 2 hours, but I wake up feeling refreshed and good. Another thing that I do is listen to Mozart when I sleep. It might sound weird, but I swear to god it works! It clears the mind, and it's easier to focus.

Remind yourself that there’s always tomorrow. But knowing that, don’t put all your focus on the future. Live in the moment, make best of what you have at the moment your have, and if you make a mistake there’s always tomorrow to learn and recover from it. I have trouble doing this. I tend to daydream a lot about what I want my future to be, and how happy I’ll be then. But the fact is that the future is not set in stone, you don’t want to get there and be unhappy with it because it’s not what you dreamt up ten years earlier.

Always have someone that you can really depend one. The one person that I know will always be there for me is my boyfriend. He’s my best friend and we have been through a lot together. We have been together for three years, and still my parents don’t want us together.  Its hard on a couple when your trying to move in the next stage of your relationship and one you don’t have a family that supports you. Through the good and many bad times Zac has always been there for me. He’s held me when I cried, made me laugh harder than I have every laughed before, and he is always the first to apologize after a fight. I trust him more than anyone in the world. Talking to him every day reminds me that I’m not as alone as I feel most days.

So in conclusion; sleep through out the day, remember there is always tomorrow, and most importantly; have someone in your life you can depend. These are the three things that help me through the day, and I hope they ca help you too.