Stress, this evil 6-letter word will make us annoyed just by hearing it. But still, we hear and see this word pretty much in our lives. A little bit of stress can give us positive tensions when you need to deal with certain situations, but too much stress will cause various problems in both mental and physical way. Then, what are the reasons why we're surrounded by stress? Let's take a look.
First, we live in a fast-changing society. Speed and new product are important. We're experiencing new technologies that make us do things faster, and they keep changing continuously at very high speed. So, it takes effort to adjust to the new environment with cutting-edge technology. By the time we're used to it, it already becomes old. As this cycle goes on, we get stressed constantly.
Second, the society is full with competitions. What's worse is that the competitions are too big. Whereas the people we're competing with are non-seeable and limitless, we're always told to be 'better' than others or to be 'the best' among the competitors. As a result, we are to be stressed since this endless race tires our mind and body.
Last, possession is thought to be more valuable than existence in this society. Medias show us famous people every day such as politicians, sports players, celebrity, and so on. However, what medias demonstrate is what the people have rather than who they are. That's why normal people tend to evaluate others by superficial aspect. For example, what car they have, how much money they earn, what clothes they wear, etc. Therefore, people get to envy each other, which causes stress as well.
By looking at the causes of stress so far, it seems that the society we're living in is the problem since it is fast-changing, generates competitions, and focuses on possession. You might believe that it's inevitable to get stressed in this environment. However, I'm sure that as long as we know the reasons of stress and if we continue to find the answer, we will find out the realistic solution some day.
Fist, thanks for sharing your essay with us!
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I thought was this is a well-organized piece of writing. You have an interesting introduction, 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. And I deeply agree with your ideas of what cause happiness and I have great sympathy especially for the third one.
But I found some mistakes in 4th paragraph. You wrote 'For example, what car they have, how much money they earn, what clothes they wear, etc.' and what should be changed into which. we can say 'what they have' or 'what they wear' but can't say like that.
For last, I like how you conclude your essay. I hope we all can find out the realistic solution some day. :)