How you handle stress — it’s how you handle everything

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I am one of those people who gets stressed over anything. For instance, I get stressed when I am rushing out of the house and I know I am going to be late. I worry about what I am going to say, how sorry I am and so on. I think of all possible scenarios and how I could make it on time if I did this or that. If I could have just left a house a minute earlier I would have made the train and this train will be one stop further than I am now. All this worry and for what? It doesn’t do any good for me.

I do really get stressed out. The most recent “breakout” was when my husband and I were rushing to the airport. I honestly didn’t think we are going to make the flight. We had to check-in the suitcase and go through the security. We left the house at 09:50 the flight was at 10:55. I was sweating. I was worried. I was stressing. I was trying to calm myself by thinking what’s the worst could happen, we’ll only miss the flight and get on the next one. But it doesn’t help. I was super stressed and what for?

My husband didn’t even break the sweat. He was as calm as a cucumber. He doesn’t seem to “break” under pressure, in fact, the pressure makes him calmer. We did make the flight. While on the flight I thought a lot about the pressure, stress and how one handles it. I am a real wreck. My husband, on the other hand, calm, collected and…