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I’ve got one of the most stressful jobs you could imagine; I’m a public high school teacher. Sounds surprising to some since I can take the summer off and get about four scattered weeks during the year. But there’s a price for all that freedom…it’s called STRESS. Why is being a teacher so stressful? It’s being told to work miracles when it’s impossible for a teacher to do so. It’s being able to make students behave, but not succeed. With teenagers who are not your own, you cannot make them realize the importance of an education before it is too late. You can’t even get many of them to get off the path to destruction. In a few years, those same kids will be blaming “the man” for holding them back. If they’d only look in the mirror…

When you take a stressful job and add it to other stress triggers like health, family issues, and social pressure, life can become a shaken soda bottle if you get my drift. So what is one to do? Take time to quiet the mind. It is crucial to make other aspects of your life more exciting so that the stress drowns in the sea of forgetfulness. In other words, have fun. Fun for me is hanging out with friends, going to plays, laughing, and loving. I also find that pampering myself works wonders via regular manicures and visits to the hair salon. Of course, if there are stress triggers you can get rid of, by all means do so. Living life in spite of your circumstances beats stress. So get out there and live!