Stress and pressure.

First of all, i want to highlight one of the only quotes that a teacher mentioned to me that helped me manage my emotions better this year.

'' Stress, what does it ever bring you?'' This quote was taken from Mr Daniel Lim, whom i believe is an English and Social Studies teacher in the upper secondary cohord.

So, what is stress? Do you, in times of great responsibility/importance, ever take time to ponder about why you get so stressed up over minute things that probably bring about greater pressure on nobody but yourself? I mean, why do we ever put more pressure on ourselves when we are already in such critical predicaments? Be it in occasions such as hosting an outing with your friends, planning a birthday surprise for your best friend, trying to study to no avail, and of course who would forget the ever-so-famous exams? Is stress such an amazing remedy that nobody ever notices that they are utilizing it all the time?

Then again, even if I know that stress never helps produce anything really proper and coherent, I never really got to find an answer to why it so happens that I am when polluted with a myriad of thoughts, i seem to never be able to find myself out of a personal conundrum that i had set on myself. I sincerely believe that I am not the only one that has this sort of emotional weakness, because it is a known fact that we as growing teenagers go through many problems and go through adolescence never being able to solve any of them. So from all of the jargon that i have written, can we conclude that stress is actually something that is...unavoidable? How about stress being labelled as 'good' or 'bad'? I know, I know, it is all such a controversial topic that even if i continue further i will never even be able to answer one of the question that i have posed.

Perhaps stress can be labelled as 'good' as found in certain scientific research jargon that i wouldn't want to mention here. It is said that stress can help improve the immune system and that increased stress raises productivity up to a certain point of time. Can we from here infer that we should actually be happy when we are struck with the stress syndrome likely a day before the test? Because everybody knows that when you are stressed, you are most probable to be paranoid, hostile, quiet, introverted and lots of other really weird emotions.

Then again, stress can also be labelled as 'bad' as we all know that stress makes us act recklessly and make us decide impulsively on even the most important of things. So can we from here again infer that we should worry more when we are under stress?(Note that worrying more when under stress actually equals to more stress.)

With all that I have wrote, I would like to hopefully get your opinion on what you think is the definition of stress and whether it actually brings about positive or negative impacts on your life. Perhaps you could put in examples or even stories to tell to further prove your hypothesis! But till someone actually mentions their own opinion on stress that i find truly impressive, the mystery on whether stress is a positive or negative feeling will be remained unsolved.