Stress

My personality "changes" when I'm stressed - stress brings out the worst in me. I suppose it's not that much of a surprise - it happens to everyone right? But that's just not okay.

I don't want stress to be a justification. It's not an excuse for me to be short-tempered, for me to be a downer when people are having fun. It isn't an excuse for me to be snarky (more than usual, at least), rude, unwilling to help. Yes, I'm stressed. Yes, I have tests and I feel absolutely lost. But everyone else has their trials as well. Mine are no reason for me to be reluctant to help with theirs, or worse, to aggravate them.

I've noticed that I can be a horrible friend, a horrible person, when I'm stressed and worried, and caught up in my own troubles. When normally I would be willing to help without a second thought, I find myself thinking about my own problems and placing them over others'. I pray that God will help me change this, because stressed me should be no worse of a person than I am normally. My friends, and just everyone who chances to meet me, deserve more than that from me.