Finding peace and calm in the chaos.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. No matter how much of a smooth sail life is for one, a time will come when there will be storms to face, battles to fight, challenges and tasks to overcome, and all these will push us to suffer from anxiety. I doubt if there is anyone out there who does not battle anxiety from time to time; it is like a must-do in the journey of life. Though it might not be an everyday thing, it is something that we have to deal with once in a while, and it takes a strong person to overcome it whenever it comes knocking. Not everyone manages to overcome the anxiety they have to deal with; some give in and lose the zeal to fight and overcome it.

Not a single person is completely free from anxiety; from time to time we have to deal with it, and over time we learn and master the art of dealing with anxiety and how to overcome it without stressing so much about it. Battling anxiety can sometimes be extreme, and if not handled properly, we end up regretting how things play out. This makes it necessary that we handle it well so we don't have to deal with the same thing twice or the end result coming back to haunt us. Every individual out there has one anxiety or the other that they are dealing with. Considering my country's current economy, I can say that a few of the anxieties we are dealing with as Nigerians kind of relate.

I have a lot of anxieties that I am dealing with, but currently one is topping the chart, which is how to go about my final year project, which has to do with conducting a research on how I can develop a solar-powered dehydrator for the drying of seafoods such as crayfish. The funds needed to get the project done and how to go about the project scares me whenever I remember, and it is indeed a cause to worry. My supervisor has explained how he wants it to be, but the truth is that I still feel lost and wonder how I can actually come up with something like that.

Also, I have done a market survey on all the materials I will need and the money needed to get the project done is outrageous, and that is something a single undergraduate student cannot handle, but my supervisor still insists that I do it alone, so all these are what I am dealing with currently, and it is really messing with my mental health. I would have said it is messing with my mental health and causing it to deteriorate, but people would think I am losing my sanity, but sometimes it feels like that when I think about it, and it comes with a touch of depression when I overthink it.

One way I get to overcome this anxiety when it sets in is looking around and seeing that I am not alone; other coursemates and final-year students are facing the same challenges, and I believe that if they can do it, then I can do it as well. I also tell myself that I will definitely finish what I have started and not leave it halfway. If people before me were able to come to this school, study the same course, get their projects done, and then leave, then my story won't be any different.

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