essay 2 - STRESS

                Stress can be defined as a condition when human’s body reacted to a particular overwhelming condition. As human’s body can’t bear it anymore, thus it starts to show some unusual syndromes. Eventually, the main cause of stress is human’s mind, when they tend to treat some problem as an extremely important thing.  ”Stress is an ignorant state, it believes that everything is an emergency” may be appropriate to represent it. Have you ever felt overly panic or even insomnia when being chased by deadlines? Yes, some people may think these are usual syndrome. However, it shows common signs and symptoms of stress. Based on American Psychological Association, surveys showed that 82% of stressed people in America feel some symptoms such as headache, changing in eating habit, and easily get angry. Therefore, stress can give some impacts to people in modern society. The most critical effects nowadays are committing suicide for the changing in behavior and obesity for the changing in human’s physic.   

                Nowadays throughout the world, committing suicides are nearly common to be done as the result of overly frustration. For this case, let’s take teenagers as the example. Most parents will naturally ask their children to study a lot of thing to become a successful person in the future. Piano lesson, homework from school, joining language course, final exams, these are things that obviously most of teenagers will go through. However, is it not too much? Can their body stand it? 73% of 804 teachers in America believe that teenagers are more frustrated than before 10 years ago. Moreover, John Harkin, head teacher of Oak grove integrated college in Londonderry said that about 800 teenagers commit suicide in every year. It really takes a big role of their society life. Some of them commit suicide as withdrawal, whereas the others do it to show the world of their existence. Scientists found that some teenagers commit suicide because they had a big problem in their mind and can not share it to other people. Bad relationship between parents and their child, failed in school, and lack of mental health in school affect the teenagers stress level. They are confused how to handle it, over-depressed and choose to commit suicide. Therefore, stress is the main cause of those number of suicide incidents among teenagers.

                Recent experiments showed that there are relations between stress level and obesity. When under depressed, human’s brain will release a hormone that will activate a gene in fat cells. Based on the journal Nature Medicine’s study, scientists found that a stressed mouse will gain weight twice as much as normal mice, and stop gaining weight when the hormone being taken. For human, some studies also found that stressful people will easier get fatter, it is because the changing in their hormone and eating behavior. If in one night, you are busy doing assignments. When you feel hungry, will you chose to prepare a plate of salad or just order McDonalds? Based on experiment, under-stressed people will tend to eat more sugar and salt. They believe that it will give them more energy to continue their work, they need it. Eventually, this obesity’s problems are getting worse. The World Health Organization said that the number of obesity in the world will double to 2,3 billion in 2015. They are to busy minding their deadlines, no time to exercise and no time to take care of their food. Also because of stress, a hormone called neuropeptide Y that cause fat cells growing and multiplying, is resulting in the increased of obesity. It is really obvious that stress level can change human’s physic in term of obesity and also change their way of life in society’s life.

                As the conclusion, stress can result some critical impacts in term of changing how people behave and changing their physical appearance. As we can see, these problems are getting worse. Will you being controlled by your life’s matter? As nowadays, urban area is getting more modern. It means that there will be more pollution, people must live systematically, and stress level will be increased in the future. However in the other hand, scientists keep working on finding the way to reduce stress level. In order to avoid some particular physical problem and frustration, people must avoid stress. They can do some stress’s managements such as listening to music, relax, exercise and even shopping. But after all, it comes back to human’s mindset. If people can always think clearly, and do their activity in well organized way, they hardly become stress and frustrated in going through their life.

essay 1-success

                Success is referring to a condition when people had achieved their goal or simply means, the opposite of failure. When talking about success, who is the person that first appear in your mind? For most people, they will visualize success as a very rich man. Most of businessmen such as Donald Trump often think that “Money is everything”. According to Forbes, Trump’s wealth was valued at $2.9 billion in September 2011. However, he still has never stopped multiplying his wealth. He still owned Trump’s tower, some casinos and other investments. Therefore, earning more and more money influence the way they lead their lives. However, let’s think about a good guy like Mahatma Gandhi, or a very powerful one like Adolf Hitler. Eventually they don’t have a lot of money, but still they can be defined as a successful person. Consequently, success can be interpreted in many ways that also affected the life of people who believed in it. The other most common types of success beside in term of money are spiritual and power.

                Mahatma Gandhi is a successful person in spiritual in term of resisting desires for material gratification and devoting his life in spiritual realm. He is honored as Father of the Nation and his birthday had become International Day of Non-Violence. Time magazine named Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930. Gandhi was also the runner-up to Albert Einstein as "Person of the Century". Born on 2 October 1869, living with a devout mother and non-violence tradition really influenced him, thus take an important role in his adult life. He leaved India to study Indian law and jurisprudence in London. Moreover, he became interested in religious thought. He decided to become vegetarian, mutual tolerance among individuals minded and he went trough self-purification. Gandhi successfully became the first to apply non-violence in the political fields. Beside that, Gandhi always lives in simplicity. He dressed up like common Indian and sometimes borrows a cloth from his Indian workers friend. He believed in inner peace and treated everyone humbly. In his religion life, he practiced Hinduism and rejected all efforts to convert him to a different faith. But if he was asked about his religion, he will answer that he is also Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist, as he believe all of the religion is same, taught about kindness. One of his philosophy, "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always" shows how he look at his life and affects his mind in going through his life.

                Adolf Hitler is successful in power, as he controlled lot of followers who obeyed him and he was a big influence in his era. Born on 20 April 1889, he already fixated on warfare after finding a picture book about the Franco-Prussian War among his father's belongings. Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in French and Belgium in World War I. Kept impressing his mentor with his orator’s skill, Hitler slowly entered into politics. One of his mentors introduced him to a wide range of people in Munich society. He joined the party as a chairman with 3680 members. He became a candidate in presidency in 1933 with 17.277.180 votes, or 44% of all votes. He gained more control power after he became the chancellor of Germany. Beside that, he is also the idea behind Nazism. All of the followers of this ideology, think that German people is number 1 and they are racism-minded. He also had an important role against Britain in World War II. Thus, Adolf Hitler had a big influence and he dedicated his life to gain more power, also led his thousands of followers.

                As a conclusion, success can be defined in other way that can made people going through their life with a different ways.  Think about it, what kind of success you will choose in your life? Which factor that you want to gain most, money, spiritual, or power? Actually, success can be affected by people’s mind and their environment. This paradigm will absolutely change how they think and lead their life. In the future more and more people will chase their success by earning a lot of money. As nowadays, the world has become more modern and peaceful, thus most of things can be done using money. But to keep in mind, human being must balance all of the success factors. Having enough money and power, also keep in touch with their religion is ideal for successful life. At the end, as long as people do and gain something based on what they believe, they can be success in their own life.