Do not stress

Today’s prompt was quite interesting, something most people don’t understand. My first thought about that will also be my answer, most people don’t know that stress does not help anything.

To explain this further, I only use people around me as examples, but whenever something unforeseen happens, they always tend to get stressed. For example, oversleeping, a small trivial thing. Of course, it is not fun to realize you woke up one hour later, to find out that your job starts the same minute you woke up. This usually stresses people out, but what does that help? Stressing accomplishes nothing but making your day worse, and in most cases, you will not get to work any earlier anyway. In other situations stress can make you do unwise decisions, and sometimes it also makes things more complicated than it has to be, because stress does not allow clear thinking.

For example, when I wake up and realize I have overslept, I just know that it has happened. I message my boss, say I am sorry, and start my day as per normal. What has happened has happened, I can not do anything about it, and it does not help at all if I run around like a crazed animal. At best, it may get me to my job 5 minutes earlier by not stressing. However, if I stress, I will be sweaty after running, my head will be in chaos, I will be tired, and in general, it will not be an optimal way to start working.

So, I think many people don’t understand that stress leads to nothing except getting stressed and not feeling well. And what is the point in that?