During the Table Talk this week, we talked about stress and the ways it affects our daily lives. When I began to see just how much stress was a part of my life, I was shocked. I genuinely thought I had low levels of stress and when I looked at how much I worry, about my future, about my work, about my family, I realized it was more present in my life than necessary. There’s the good kind of stress that you need, the one that pushes you to study and finish your work. But there’s also the kind of stress that prevents you from doing work because it makes you so nervous. I learned that I have a lot of the bad kind of stress and we talked about ways that it can be reduced. What I have found that helps me de-stress is calming music and going for runs. There should be more talk about stress in the future because it can really help someone who might be struggling with it.