Talk on stress

8. Your school is planning a talk for young people. You have been asked to suggest a suitable topic for the talk.

If our school is planning on having a talk, I suggest that the topic of the talk should be about stress. Stress is a very common thing that the younger generation experiences nowadays, especially teenagers. Stress can be a handful to them because they have been living a stress free life from when they were born all the way up to 12 to 14 years old. Then, stress slowly starts creeping up to them from the more taxing assignments given by teachers in secondary schools that have to be completed while they have to participate in co-curricular activities and attend extra tuition classes. The need to juggle time well was never there before and it just makes an entrance in their lives all of a sudden. Some good students may be able to cope with everything well but there are students who can't handle all of the new responsibilities and they get stressed. Not to mention that parents have expectations for us to do very well in our examinations since we have to get good results in high school to get into a good college and proceed to a good university to be able to get a good job and make good money. The talk should give teenagers some tips to reduce their stress levels. One of them could be better time management which most teenagers lack as they have been living a laid back life until they entered high school. Better time management means more time for relaxation, no need to rush and more sleep which all lower stress. Exercise can also be introduced into teenagers lives as most teenagers in Malaysia are either overweight or obese, not that they can help it since the food of our culture can be quite unhealthy. The exercise can lower stress and also produce healthier teens which is important for them as well. Teens prioritize their looks and they enjoy being called handsome or pretty and having a healthy body will help in that aspect. Their self esteem will be higher and they will not be as self conscious as they were when they were overweight. This will also help overcome bullying problems if they were teased for being fat. All in all, I am sure that a talk about stress will have many benefits for the students attending the talk.