Stress

Humans are overloaded and wonder whether they can really cope with the pressure put upon them. Basically anything that poses a challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress. The stress response is called the fight or flight response, this is a powerful response which our body activates resources to protect us to either get away as fast as we can or fight. The study done by the CBS New York in the year 2010  concluded that 75% of the world is stressed and out of that 10% are the Americans which is higher than rest of the country.  Natalie Goldberg an American author says that “Stress is basicall a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emerency. Nothing is that important.”  Does stress change the way we live our life or the way we live our life stresses us out? Stress negativey affect people in the modern society in terms of behaviours and the physical health.

Stress influences person’s behaviour, basically the way in which the person behaves when they are under the influence of stress. Stress induced intense emotions remain to pile up inside without the release, which then keeps the body in a highly tensed state for long. This leads to the body being at the state of perpetual tension or impossible to feel relaxed. This however leads to a sudden outburst of either anger or tears. It also affect person’s eating habits, due to the increased level of cortisol (the stress hormone) where by stressed people tend to crave foods high in fat, sugar and salt even though they are not hungry (Elizabeth Scott, 2007). In addition stress can also lead to substance abuse, where the youngsters believe that when they take alcohol  to numb the stressed out feelings over a several days this is called Binge Drinking. People look at alcohol as a way to reduce stress, even though it ends up creating stress (Steven Downsen, 2009). Statistics suggest that 12-17 year olds in America take a higher consumption of alcohol due to stress. Stress would also lead to social isolation, it is that when one is stressed sudden outburst of anger occurs where then people dont really like moving around with someone who is short tempered, they spend too much of their time thinking about their impossibilty of feeling relaxed that they dont spend anytime talking to their mates and this distance the relationship leading to social withdrawal.

Prolonged and unbated stress can produce the wide variety of symptoms. High Blood pressure also known as hypertension, which develops when adrenalin is released by the adrenal glands under the condition of stress. Which then causes the blood vessels to constrict which raises the blood pressure, and if the stress is frequently occured it may cause a permanent state of high blood pressure. The chronic stress produces the extra amount of adrenalin or the fight-flight response, the adrenal glands also produce the corticod hormones. Where by the liver is unable to control the release thus it leads to infections such as cough and cold. The excess of adrenaline attack the stomach causing an ulcer, because adrenaline increases the stomach acid which then attack the tissue present in the stomach (B4U switch, 2009). Moreover stress affect the heart, as the adrenalin is pumped out it increases the heart rate where by the release of fatty acids into the bloodstream for energy, it then goes to the heart causing it to block the artery thus a person gets a heart attack ( Rachel Martin, 2009). Some people also experience skin breakouts due to the excess level of hormone produced in their body and this causes the allergies. Research depicted that 7-9 out of 10 suffer physically due to stress (Gaetane Ross, 2009). Well there are other affects due to stress such as palpitations, sweating, asthma.

In all we can conclude that, stress can affect is physically and behaviourally. This combination of stress has led to an epidemic of stress related disorders in the society. People have accepted that being stressed is natural, but they ar wrong. Human beings work so hard to get wealth and success, if they dont achieve what they aim for leads them to stress and if they achieve it they are stressed due to the fear of anyone stealing it away from them, basically we humans neglect to take cae of ourselves. Danzae Pace an Italian author that says “Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” Stress is undeniable, thus it is a must to cope with.

Success

                                    Different people have different interpretations of what success means to them. Inorder to achieve success one must adjust to every situation with ease. Success is the process of doing a task and receiving a positive result or it is simply achieving one’s own personal goals.  One of the famous successful inventors Thomas Edison was considered stupid in his early years, but turned out to be the one that invented light bulbs. Everywhere we go we hear stories of successful people; when we are at school the teachers relates our scope with the successful people in the world which gives us a higher motivation to study and become successful just like them. The famous quote stated by Robert Collier “Success is the small efforts repeated day in and day out.” Does success mean that one is improving one self? There are different kinds of success;  power, materialistic and contributor.

                                    With great power comes great responsibiility.  Well, this type of success gains a lot of control, basically someone who wants to contrl and the person to be chose as a leader. These kinds of people tend to over rule their peers. These are the kind of people that want to be at the top of the pyramid, they care about nothing but their position not even money. It is very easy to spot them as power driven individuals have dynamic and strong personalities. One of the many greatest example  “Adolf Hitler” he was an absolut power and ruthless in attaining it. His ultimate power was to achieve a lot of power so that he could transfor Germany into comprising solely of what he saw as a superior “Aryan Race”. The way he looked at success forced him to use underhanded means to attack absolute power. In the year 1934 he became the leader of Germany thus he achieved the power success.

                                  People that are materialistic are usually the one that are media driven. They are just materialistic because the media openly publicizes materialism. Materialistic people are usually brainwashed by the media that happiness is only achieved by excessive luxuries and statuses. One of the example of a materialistic person is Jim Carrey, a famous comedian. He was the fourth kid of the family, who dropped out of school at an early age. He wanted to give his family a better home where they could live peacefully without carrying any burden. But Jim here does not know that happiness cannot be bought by money.  Maybe a house can be purchased but it does not become a house unless the people living in it are happy.

                                  The other kind of success is being a contributor. These kind of people are the ones that want to create a better world for the people at the present and that of the future. They want to step in to the world to make a difference. For these people helping one another is on a daily basis and they receive nothing in return. The best example is Mahatma Gandhi, he led nationwide campaigns for easying poverty, expanding the women’s rights and buliding the religious and ethenic amity. Gandhi strove to practice non-violence and truth in all situations and advocated that the others do the same.  Gandhi went to the jail, despite of what the Britishers had done Gandhi got India indepence at a non-violence state.

                                      Evidently, the way people percieve success is influential in the decission that they make. Whatever the decission maybe appropriate or even socially, the thing that matters is the strive to achieve that success. Take Adolf Hitler as an example maybe in people’s eyes he was a scary murderer but in his point of view he was just achieving something that is called success.  When it is a person’s aim to buy a BMW S-Class they work so hard for it that they will eventually get it as hard work pays off and to them that is success; Achieving something that you have aimed for a long period of time. And when you attain that success the happiness that you get is mind-blowing, having that feeling in you “that yes I have achieved success with the help of no one” is amazing. I would like to end this essay with a quote said by  Jack Charlton, British football manager.

“ Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given to you. Whatever you do, you've got to work for it                and earn it. Whatever reward you get you've go to know that you've had your input into that success. There's no substitute for hard work. And if you want to be well known or well liked, you have to put yourself out for people”.