Point A to Point B

Sometime around 2020-2021 my body began to do something I never thought it would do, at least not that soon, I began to add weight which was a good thing for me because back then, I used to be really slim.

That was the year where I was suppose to be doing my one year industrial training but I had instead used it to rest and just do nothing other than eat. So with no school stress and nothing physical to do, my body just kinda relaxed and found it's peace.

Now why am I saying all this you might ask? Well you see, today's contest topic has to do with what is causing us stress and for me, my answer is very simple and plain, schooling. For me currently, the one thing stressing the hell out of me is school and I will tell you why.

Up until last year, my school used to have motorcycles that would carry students to various areas in the school for a fee and for some reasons, the school management had decided to ban motorcycles and introduced minibus. Unlike the motorcycles which literally needed just one passenger to get to work, while the minibus needed like 6 to 7 of those.

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So just to get from point A to point B, you'd have to wait for about ten to twenty minutes or thereabout just to make sure that the bus gets filled up. Now if you're not in a hurry, then ten to twenty minutes will probably look like a short time to you, but for someone who needs to be in the exam hall in the next five minutes before the exam starts, it's definitely a long time.

And so in my anger, I had made a promise to myself never to make use of the school minibus. I don't know why I made that promise because I know that them not getting my money wouldn't make any difference but for some reason, I had said those words and I plan on honoring it till I'm out of this school.

That is why, ever since then, I've always been walking to anywhere in the school. Luckily for me, the school isn't as huge as a lot of the other universities in the country and though walking from one end of the school to another will take me time, it is something I can do and doing all that just increases the amount of stress I have to go through every day.

This is because in a day, I might have three to four classes in different locations and while it would have been easier some months ago for me to just hop on a bike and get to those classes, I now find myself having to walk there and by the time I've done doing all of those walking, I have to walk back home.

Sometimes I get home and my handkerchief would be drenched in my own sweat. All of those involuntary workouts everyday stresses me out and sometime I find myself taking a nap longer than usual because of how exhausted my day was.

So you see, in order for my level of stress to reduce right now, I either need to be done with this school or get a personal ride for myself.. It doesn't have to be a car, it can be anything that moves and doesn't stress me from getting from point A to point B.