Confessions of a Complicated Teenager

As teenagers, we face with challenging and rather complicated situations every hour of the day, and we either are able to handle them calmly or we can let our emotions overpower us, making us feel very stressed out. During that kind of scenarios, we need to have knowledge of how to deal with it so that it doesn´t get to a point in which it runs our life, and that is excatly what we will aim to do in this post.

First and foremost, we need to aknowledge procrastination as this century´s vice. We live with it every day, and we rather prefer to watch the last season of Riverdale than studying logarithms or Napoleon´s coup d’etat -Believe us: we understand!- Nevertheless, we also know that if we fail Math or History, we wont be able to guess if Jughead and Betty stay together because our parents won´t let us. If you are not in the mood for doing homework or even finishing a school project, then find your motivations on the fact that if you finish your responsibility as quickly as possible, you´re going to be able to enjoy your favorites hobbies without any sense of guilt. Procrastination is a common thing, and it is absolutely important if you understand that sometimes leaving all to the last minute can cause more stress than doing it as soon as you are able to. Stress is produced in great manner due to leaving everything for enjoying a small moment, in which we are unconsciously worried about the things we have to make but we will make no effort towards doing. So, if you want to avoid stress, go ahead and stop procrastinating (otherwise don´t complain about homework).

On the other hand, other advice we can give you is to talk less and do more. When you grumble about how much homework you have and how much time is it gonna take, you are not only getting stressed about the real things you have to do, but you are getting tired of just thinking of what you must achieve. Instead of overthinking, we recommend you to start doing your bucket list of tasks and complete it without hesitation. Once you finish one or two chores, you will feel more productive and this will encourage you to keep working towards finishing it all. They say that one action is worth more than a thousand words, so please, instead of reading how to deal with stress, GO AND DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO!

That being said, these tips and recommendations that have been presented to you have no other aim but to help and to ease the way in which teenagers cope with stress. These tips not only can help you, but, if you actually find them useful, you can fell free to share them with others so that those around you who could be stressing out 24/7 or who most of the time are having one of those I-can´t-do-anything days, can see that someone else is having their back and that this person really matters to others, which could make them kind of forget and exit from that stress bubble for a moment. It is true though, that it is completely up to you to decide whether you want to apply them in your life, either for yourself or to help others, or if you simply find other ways more convenient, because, at the end of the day, the only person who knows exactly what´s actually best for you, is yourself. So don´t forget that stress is something that can be overcomed and that it is not something that should make you forget about all of the other luxuries that teenage life has to offer.

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