stress- sydney adams 12

Stress. S-T-R-E-S-S. A five letter word that can completely describe the universal sensation that any given person is probably experiencing.  Stress is different for every age group and every generation. The hardships and stresses our grandparents or even our parents faced and lost sleep over probably seem like bumps under the rug to our generation and they may not even know the struggles we face actually exist.
I do not believe a specific group of individuals have or had it worse than another. With each generation comes new, diverse problems and things to stress about.
For example, past generations faced the lack of innovation and technology that we are blessed (and cursed) with today. Many had to work to support their families from a young age and the jobs they did weren’t just filling ice cream cones and dealing with outrageous customers or riding in an air conditioned tractor cab; no, they did hard labor. In addition, they lived in our country before things like segregation, Cyndi Lauper, tragic crappy love songs and the unfair treatment of women and people of different ethnicities were overcome.
Yet young adults in this day and age are subject to more bullying as there are a multitude of outlets and ways to do so now, there’s various stresses caused by technology such as assignments and tests being switched to electronic versions leaving you to depend upon the computer, phone etc. or social media. Offenders or anyone who desires to do so can find a person with a simple google search needing little to no information about the person. That’s terrifying. This generation stresses about the lack of jobs and the fact that going to college and/or getting a good education is pretty much rendered worthless so should we even waste our money to get a degree that will serve as much purpose as a sheet of notebook paper. Our society is in a disgusting place, pressuring us to, either conform and become the standards they have set or to stress about how we can reshape change society completely.

There are countless things to stress over for everyone ranging from those in pampers to those in depends. Stress is a global epidemic, though when you take a step back and consider it, it’s unnecessary.
Stressing burdens our minds and bodies to no avail. Most of the time the things we are so keen on worrying about our completely out our control. All generations and age groups should take into consideration that there is absolutely no reason to stress everything, nothing good comes from it and we’d all benefit it we calmed down and thought without our minds being clouded by the nerve-wracking, worrisome, hostile unhappiness that comes from stress.