I guess you could always try to prioritize and help out the people who need you the most. Then again, I suppose it would be difficult to determine such...well, maybe not. I don't know, really, but I guess what I would do is just make sure each person knows that I was feeling a tad burnt out. Umm...hmm...

I know what you mean, though. Lately it seems as though a lot of people, myself included, have been undergoing some huge forms of stress. Let's see if I can think of all the things that have been making this past week a yo-yo for me...

--my best friend is constantly rattling on about a guy she likes. I mean, I'm happy for her and everything, but I hear the same things from her day after day. Of course, I try to be a good friend and listen to her and I give her my advice (which, not surprising, is about the same every day).

--another friend of mine is struggling with a long-distance relationship. Her parents told her that she couldn't continue seeing her boyfriend since he joined the Army, but she's still torn up inside over her feelings for him.

--yet another friend of mine is in the process of a break-up with her boyfriend, and I guess it's a lack of communication on his part. He's breaking up with her, though, and although I told her she's free to talk to me anytime the need be, she's keeping it all locked up inside her. I told her that even though it would be difficult, she'd feel a little better talking about it, but I can't make her talk...so she isn't.

--then there's the bulimic person I told everyone about. She claims she doesn't have bulimia yet, and that "it's just a phase" she's going through and she'll get over it soon enough. That scares the lugnuts out of me, since I've never been faced with this type of problem before, so I really don't know what to tell her. I keep reassuring her that if she went to a counselor or a support group, she could at least see if she thought it would help any. However, she just keeps denying the fact that she has a problem...which is confusing, since just a few days ago she told me flat-out that she knew she had a problem.

--I'm trying to figure out whether or not I stand a chance with the guy I like.

--my grades are not-so-good at the moment. I have about three B's...I'm an A student, so that's bad. Especially since my parents nearly blow up at the mere thought of me getting less than a 4.0 GPA on my transcript. (That's not gonna happen, since last year I got a B in Geometry both terms I took it.)

--my grandmother has some serious emotional problems, which she consistently denies. My grandfather died a little over three years ago, and it's still tearing her apart inside. I mean, it hurts me just as much, but I have ways of dealing with the pain, but she doesn't. That really scares me because she never comes out and says how she feels, when it's obvious that she's crying inside. She can't keep dwelling on the bad memories, you know?

--anything else I may have forgotten inserted here.

Anyway...I got a little carried away there, but oh well. I guess what I'm doing right now to deal with all this stress is...hmm...I've been thinking to myself lately that there's a reason why all of this is happening to me, so I need to accept the good things along with the not-so-good things. And if I help other people to the best of my ability, whether or not they appreciate it at first, then I have done the best job I possibly can to help them. Also, I've just recently become close to God again, so I've been putting my trust in Him...cuz a lot of things have been going on lately that make me want to blow up. It seems like nothing's going right for me...but since everything happens for a reason, then I'm just trying to remember that I'm learning every day from the experiences I'm going through. :)

I don't know if anything I said will help you or not, but at any rate, it helped me...lol. :)

~Den-"hope something I said helped you"Kara




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