Smooth, With a Capital "Smoo"

I must appologize for being late with today's post. I had the option of going home and doing homework after a bunch of friends went out for dinner or I could have watched 6 episodes of Red Dwarf at a friend's. Sorry guys, the BBC wins every time.

This quote is brought to you by my homemade almond misto and treasured ceramic Starbucks mug that looks like the paper ones they have in the stores. It's killing me that the eggnog shipments are in and I have not yet had a chai-eggnog latte.

"You can see deeply into a tangled forest if you peer closely."

Mike Kershnar Artist and cofounder of Elemental Awareness, a charitable organization that works with youth.

If taken literally, this is a bold lie. If you peer deeply into a tangled forest, you are more likely to get poked in the eye by a tree branch than to see deeply into said forest. If the forest is taken as a metaphor for life and tricky situations, it's possibly useful advice.

I have a habit of panicking when confronted with something new or stressful, and I can only focus on my inability to complete the task before me. This only exacerbates my anxiety, until I am reduced to a quivering blob of insecurity whimpering in the fetal position on the floor. This of course could be avoided if I were to calmly take a closer look at my situation and figure out how to deal with whatever is causing me stress. If I were to look closely at the situation, I'd probably see some obvious answer that I'd have missed because I was busy trying not to explode.