Life, Study and Stress

Those three words sum up what I am feeling and doing right now.

Life keeps getting in the way, whether it would be through studying, practicing the piano or violin or just trying to get enough exercise to keep my body healthy. My schedule feels extremely cramped right now, and it is causing me so much stress that I feel pretty…well, depressed is the only word for it.

My piano exams are coming very soon. I’m lucky, actually – the date has been moved 3 weeks forward. The pupils being taught under other teachers in my area have to do theirs this week! I think God just gave me a gift from heaven. Now I have some extra time to practice.

Piano exams are my biggest worry. Not only do I have to get my songs up to tip-top shape, I need to really, really practice my technical work – scales, arpeggios, whatever else. And my general knowledge. Oh Lord, my general knowledge! It’s the reason why I’m on the computer right now – because I’m studying stuff about the major Musical Periods, Ancient Church Modes and searching up definitions of terminology I think I should ought to be knowing.

Oh yes. School has just started today. And I fell sick during school because my health hasn’t exactly been up-to-date. Now I seriously need to get some exercise in my day before I drop dead. The time to fit all this in? I don’t know where.

Stress. Stress. Stress.

Hopefully, this will soon be over.

Sakurahime

“A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don’t have that outlet.”