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Taking Advice from a Cupcake

Sometimes you find the strangest things on social media

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In a world that's always telling you to "eat clean" and "exercise more" and "stop eating full boxes of donuts in one sitting because that's really bad for your arteries, not to mention your blood sugar," it's strange to think that the best advice can come from a cupcake.

In the event that you haven't already seen it, allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite social media presences: Cuppy, The Good Advice Cupcake.

As weird as it sounds, this sweet little treat serves up advice that bites back, and it's really helped me through the home stretch of the semester.

For a cupcake, Cuppy sure is a smart little character.

Cute but crazy, Cuppy can help you deal with things from breakups to self-care to simply just allowing yourself to admit that you screwed up and reminding you that it's okay!

As a college student, I find it really difficult to find that perfect work-play balance. During the week, I am beyond stressed about the things that I have to do for classes as well as for myself. Between papers and exams and meetings and laundry, there just never seems to be enough hours in the day to mark off every item on the never-ending checklist of my college career.

Failure only makes this worse.

The fear of failure is one of the things that has held me back and kept me going past my breaking point for my entire life. While this motivation isn't always a bad thing, it can be destructive...especially when I feel like falling asleep after staying up for extended amounts of time. When I'm tired, like most people, I get extremely overwhelmed, quite easily. The smallest things can send me into a downward spiral of doubt, and I can never seem to catch a break. In my mind, this amounts to failure and, before the day is done, I feel terrible about myself.

Thanks to a quick scroll through my Instagram feed, I found Cuppy. Looking through this profile, I found a few cartoons and videos that really spoke to a lot of my chronic struggles as a perfectionist and a college student.

Cuppy reminds me to keep up my confidence, no matter what adversity I am facing. The frosted guru has reminded me, more times than I care to admit, that I have to think of myself sometimes an that's okay! Taking a breather to scroll through Instagram brought me to this page but it also brought me to a renewed outlook for my busy, hectic life.

Sure, I'm busy at the end of the semester. In a few weeks I will be in Scandinavia and, after that, I will be working more jobs than I probably should have taken on. Next semester my courseload is the lightest it has ever been but I have taken on a variety of new, time-consuming positions and several more work hours than I have had to manage in the past two years. I already know that the stress can only go uphill from here.

Thanks to Cuppy, however, I know that I can handle it.

Instagram page, Cuppy is also present on Facebook, Youtube, and the BuzzFeed Shop.

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