In life, dealing with stress is as unavoidable as getting caught in the rain. I take as much care to avoid stress as possible but it happens. I think because I am so cautious that I miss out on things too. Life experiences that one can only get from pushing yourself through a stressful situation. If you avoid people that trigger you emotionally, do you ever gain the ability to deal with that type of person in the future? If you have an irrational fear, can you overcome it if you don’t ever face it head on?

I’ve taken a break from writing for a bit to buy a house and move. Barring having to deal with my mental health issues, it is possibly the most stressed I have ever been in my life to date. (Yup you guessed correctly, I have no kids.) There was so much planning involved, and paper gathering, and packing, AND, AND, AND! The anxiety, stress, and effort just didn’t seem to end, but it did, and it was worth it. There was some unavoidable stresses like the hours of tracking down papers that I didn’t bother to organize sooner, or the 50+ emails just between me and the bank.