Being overwhelmed is quite the peculiar thing. Treading the rising tide of the stress sea. Slowly but surely watching as it rises to consume you. It's a very specific type of panic and one that tends to be the most dreadful. But a little stress is good, yes? Then surely being overwhelmed must have some metaphorical bright side.

We tend to grow for reasons. We are pushed into greatness. Adaption and evolution are the ultimate conversion. We give them our problems, our suffering or even our mistakes and they give us progress. They are a springboard which only help to improve us.

The main point here being that we need bad things to happen so we are forced to improve. Thankfully these horrid events don't have to totally destroy us, only place us out of our comfort zone. But I digress, why would being overwhelmed be helpful?

Well clearly we can extrapolate from the previous argument that it gives us the opportunity to improve. The real question is how does it do this specifically? As with everything I've ever tried to explain, the answer lies in its fundamentals. If we look at the type of problem inundation is we see It deals with a conflict between expected output and actual output. Hence we just don't think we can give what we need to. This type of pressure tends to force us to grow in terms of capacity as a corrective measure.

So that was a lot of pseudo intellectual garbage I just fed you, now what have you learned? In a more human sense, we need to struggle to grow. These episodes of stress exist to help us deal with more stress later on. I hate to acknowledge it, but life likes to continuously ramp up. It always creates bigger challenges. But these are not to be feared, with challenge comes reward. If we can ever hope to achieve these rewards we need to build our way up to that level. These panicked days are numbered, for they too will give rise to more stressful days. We stop worrying about exams and worry about if we're lonely on an existential level, we stop worrying about how we look and start worrying about if we're even compatible with people and we stop worrying about our parents looking over our shoulders and worry about the days they won't be there anymore. My goodness those are scary and already the mere thought overwhelms myself. But one day we will have to be ready and we will be ready.

By then we will have amassed a plethora of tricks and partners to see us through. But even still, thinking about it is hard. So close your eyes and lose yourself in happier days.