Article by Eryk Katimbang Graphics by Carl Pedraja
January 20, 2022
Picture this, you are sick on your bed, got covid and flu, missing a week of classes and needing to catch up a week after by pleading with professors to extend your deadlines by another week while being mentally and physically tired in doing your long overdue projects because of many other reasons. Stressful right? Now add other problems like family and finance, then a sprinkle of no sleep because every problem that I’ve said thus far is stuck in your head and you’ve got an anxiety attack (Bonus if you are a working student). Awful right? Well, that’s literally the feeling of many students right now.
There’s no denying that taking a breathe from these problems once in a while helps ease a person’s mind set for the next challenges they might encounter in the future. Not only does it help self-reflection, but it also helps one’s physical and mental being to catch up. Piling up problems without breathing or break is never healthy for anyone, physically or mentally, and finding ample room for one is a definite must. Why? Well stress is a thing, and it’s notorious for making people feel burned out, anxiety, depression, poor coping skills, and have lesser confidence. These can lead to often underwhelming performances in outputs due to degrading habits to solve the above problems by either overworking without rest, or letting things go without worrying the consequences of abandoning such important responsibilities (I know because I have done both at some point).
Taking a step back from all these problems, gathering yourself up from a mistake and picking yourself from the ground up is a lesson we know and learned from at some point within our lives. By stopping to make ourselves calm and breathe, we find ourselves back within the mess life, and we strive forward once again by learning how to deal with the same problems that slowed us down. Whether through hardship and effort or thinking outside the box, all of it were made possible after taking one simple rest.
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