Personal Experience: My Virtual Life: Early Adulthood

Virtual Life: Early Adulthood

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One behavior that I tend to exhibit is stress. I often worry about things, like the future, and anticipate on this going wrong often. “You think about how your choices and their consequences could affect you down the road.” (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) “You’ve thought about the future some, and will probably be feeling worried the more you think about it.” (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) I need to relax a little about things, and let life happen as it does. The majority of things that I worry about are beyond my control. This might serve as obstacles later in life because stress can lead to health problems. A lifetime of stress can hurt your heart and blood pressure, along with other things. Another behavior that I could work on is that I tend to keep some things inside that I dwell on things longer than necessary. For instance, I had my first girlfriend when I was in college. We broke up after a few months, but I had already fallen in love with her, and took the break-up hard. (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) I only told a close friend Sarah and my best friend Alex about it, and they both insisted that I go talk to someone about it, but I didn’t go. They said

I went to college right after graduating high school, and jumped right into the work field after graduating college. I couldn’t find a job in my field, so I decided to go back to graduate school after stressing about bills and whatnot. All of these things are stressful. While school is important, I’ve already pointed out that I tend to hold onto the stress. My friends have taken me out for some vacations, but it’s pretty much a constant life of work. (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) The biggest impact of this is, again, the stress catching up with me. So all in all, my biggest problem throughout Emerging Adulthood is stress