Acharya Prashant: What is it that gives you stress? How many of you feel stressed, let’s say, at least a couple of times in the week? Quite a few! All right! What is it you feel stressed about? Just speak up, I’m here. Without the mic just speak up.
What is it you feel stressed about? GPA, and deadlines and assignments, and getting jobs, placements, and? Train travels — commuting to-and-fro from the campus. Okay, and? Performance in terms of grades, okay! And? So, that’s okay. Itna to hamara bhi tha (this much was ours also). So, not much has changed. Just the train part was not there. But everything else we too experienced. Right?
See It’s all right to have a particular level of stress, it keeps you disciplined. The problem is when, stress becomes everything for you. When you lose sight of joy, of freedom, of attainment, and start feeling overwhelmed by stress. The stress is okay, you must learn to crack jokes when stressed, and those jokes will have a special flavour.
There is tension in the mind, and I turn my own tension into a joke on myself. So, right now there is so much tension within me – some kind of sponty PJ (poor joke). Close to the breaking point, something on the Young’s modulus, stress and strain. Turn your own situation into a joke. It’s okay, there’s nobody who can live without stress and it is not even not even desirable, that one lives with zero stress. You should have however; things in life, that are bigger than your stress. You must know the right and relative place of everything.
There is something you feel stressed about, the stress is all right, but then there are far more important things in life. Life and existence itself are more important than anything in life.
