A lesson about stress

Is it just me or does accommodation arrangements not just like always go hand in hand with headaches, problems and difficulties? Well mine does anyway. Luckily I am blessed with an older sister who can help me with things like this, as she clearly knows a lot more than me and have better experience with handling these situations. However, the way she handles it has me stressing. Although deep down I know that she is actually correct. You see, if the woman from the student accommodation office tells me I must give her an answer the following day about whether I want to move into res or not, I want to give her an answer the following day. But bring my sister into things, and that is not how it goes down.  She wants to speak with the woman first. And it doesn’t help that this woman is so extremely busy and that she doesn’t take calls or respond to e-mails.

Now the “following day” that I was meant to give an answer is also over. I don’t know if I can say obviously, because maybe it is just obvious for me. Anyway, obviously I am worried now and I think the woman will assume we are not interested and give the place to someone else. My sister definitely does not think the same about this than me. According to her the place won’t just be given away. Hell, I sure hope it won’t!

What I learned from all of this is that it is clear that when something has to do with you personally, you are way more emotionally involved and unable to think objectively about it. This is probably a bad thing I think. Although I must admit, I tend to stress a lot about things overall. I just know that all in all, it is for the best to have someone involved who won’t be influenced by the outcome of things. If things do work out, that is. Otherwise this lesson I learned means nothing. Except maybe to not bring my sister into things in the future. Just kidding, she really does help me a lot. (I love you sis!)

Just thoughts

Earlier this week my friend asked me for my help in motivating her, because she is really struggling with her university work. Now, we were together in high school, and she is really clever. But she's thinking about switching courses, because she can't cope with the work she has to do now. So that just got me thinking. Is there ever going to be a time in your life when you are not struggling with something or have some kind of problems? Probably not. And that's quite a morbid thought. 

When we were in school, the work was really difficult at times. And when we get to university it's obviously a lot worse. In your work place one day, based on how the cycle goes, you will then struggle even more. Just in a different way, but none the less, there will be problems and work you can't do. Why must it be like this? I really do not know actually. Yes, we have all those sayings of  "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and "you will get out stronger on the other side". Well that does not really help you when there is a test you have to study for and you just literally can't understand anything you're reading. It's so easy to lose hope in times like this. 

The beginning

Okay so I have a blog now. It was just a random Thursday in the supposed study break mini holiday of the university and I was busy surfing around on the internet and decided to do it. I can't believe how easy it actually was. It couldn't have been more than 5 minutes to set it up and now I have my very own blog. Wow, respect for technology hey. Yeah I know there are thousands of better technological inventions already, but I tend to be amazed at things like this anyway.

I thought about getting a blog for a while now, but then I'll just forget about it again. You know how things like this go if you're just a beginner. You have your doubts about who will read it and what will you write. I just decided to take the plunge however, as I obviously have nothing to lose in this process. And now I find myself to be quite excited! I'm thinking about my next posts already. Then again, that might just be because I'm supposed to be studying for my Political Science test now! All in all, I'm looking forward to this new project. Who knows where this can take me.