Over winter break, I experienced a big realization about my pace of life, and how it was effecting me. I'm a sophomore in college, and 95% of my time is made up of worrying about everything, from class, to friends, to family, to clubs, to work, to homework, and everything in between. Normal students worry about this, but it got to the point for me where I didn't even know how to focus on one thing at a time.

I started working when I came home for break, and this is where I realized how much I worry. I started getting dizzy spells, heart palpitations, and just feeling like I had no control. I've never gotten this feeling at school, and what I realized is that I just was so concerned with constantly moving and having to things, that on top of my health issues, stress was not making it any better.

I worry about the littlest things. I obsess over little details, and it is something I've learned that I need to stop doing. I need to slow the heck down and tackle one thing at a time because adding extra unnecessary stress to my life only makes it worse. This semester is going to be busy for me, and I am trying to get a handle on thinking and approaching things differently because it's not good for my health to worry so much.

I think a lot of us do that, even non-students, but sometimes we don't even realize how much we worry about everything. We constantly add more and more to our plates and stress about it instead of taking the time to just calm ourselves and make a plan to work everything out.

There are things that, yes, we absolutely do need to be concerned about, but the minor things are not worth dwelling on. So you spilled coffee on your favorite sweater today. Is it dramatically affecting you? No. Think of what is necessary to give time to worry about. There is only so much you can do in the world.

I think if you're in my situation, you just need to find a right balance. I've always had a rough time between worrying about minor things, and focusing my attention where it's more important. It's all about making sure you are putting the right things first, and not wasting time just sitting around worrying about the things you cannot change.

That is the whole realization I've made. I can worry about the things that go wrong in my life that are out of my control. Life goes on, and all bad situations are temporary. So this semester, I am focusing on the important aspects of my life and will try to stress less about the little things that I dwell on normally.