Lauryn McNair #25

I don't know if we're expected to do this one, so I'm going to do it any way. Stress goes onto my medium size list of things I don't do well with. My mom says I function at a constant level of stress, so I begin to think it's normal and I don't really think I'm stress, but apparently I am. The best way I deal with stress is actually getting the things I need to get done, done. A decent amount of my stress comes from the seemingly endless amount of responsibilities I have and things I'm trying to be good at. The other part usually comes from me pushing it off until the last minute. I fear rejection in every aspect of my life. Whether that's being mocked by peers, or having an idea shot down, or my lunch number being incorrect and not going through the system. This leads me to constantly avoid things until I can't any more. Then I get even more stressed and anxious, until I finally just do it. Then my life's a little bit better and I can breathe a little bit easier. I also stress about not doing well in school, not being as high as an achiever as everyone else, of not getting into college, etc. These things I usually just stress about for an unhealthy amount of time until I remind myself that I'm not doing terribly bad, and in like 10 years from not it's not going to matter and nothing really matters so there's no point in stressing. And finally for really big things that I can't avoid, like a family member having cancer, I just pretend it's not happening. Anything possibly bad that could be going on in my life, I just act like it's not and look up cute pictures of James Franco.