Stress Showdown

Micol AzcarateStaff WriterWhenever I see a friend in the hallway, I have this urge to start out our conversation, whatever the subject may be, with a good old yawn and, “Ugh, I’m so tired.” While most of the time I really am tired, I wonder why I think it’s cool or relevant to anyone else but me to share this information. And the weird thing is I’m not the only one suffering from this “my life sucks, let me tell you all about how it sucks more than yours" virus. It seems as though we are undergoing an epidemic. In fact, as soon as I utter those words, “I am so tired,” it's like the walls crumble down, a camera zooms in on my face, and I am suddenly on the set of “Pokémon.” The floor starts to shake and next thing I know I am standing on a cliff side, and my friend, now an opponent, is on another cliff on the opposite side of a lava lake separating the two of us. Let the battle begin for who's life is worst. “Yeah. I got like 3 hours of sleep though,” he’ll reply, to which I must outdo him and say, “I am going to fail my biology test, I can’t even keep my eyes open.” But oh no! He’s already taken his biology test, and he says he’s already failed it, he saw his grade on Illuminate. For this he gets 5 lives. What do I do, should I lie? “This morning I was almost hit by a car while biking.” I get a few energy points for that one. And just like that our competition will last until one of us is defeated, or the bell rings and we both have to run to class because “Ugh, I’m going to be late again!”