A Challenge

Finals week.

It's here.

And I am drowning in an ocean of stress.

My first final is tomorrow and I am freaking out. Finance. I feel like no amount of studying can possibly help me with this final. But by this time tomorrow, I will be forever done with finance! 

I could also be done with this blog by tomorrow. I mean, this blog was started for academic purposes and technically, this is my last graded post. But the whole blogging thing has grown on me, so I think I'll keep going.

With this last post, my professor gave us a challenge:

Find someone who is more stressed than you 

and do something nice for them.

Challenge accepted.

I have a roommate. We don't always get along. We're just very different people and our perspectives are not at all the same. But she is moving out of the apartment and she has been packing up boxes all weekend while trying to study for her finals.

They say that the best way to develop love for someone is by serving them. So tonight I decided to serve my roommate by helping her carry and load all of her boxes. A small act of service, no big deal. It made the job seem a lot less daunting and we finished pretty quickly. She was appreciative and it was a decent bonding moment. Maybe I should have tried this earlier, but at least I did one final act of love, right? 

So in the midst of all my stress, I took time to relieve some of her stress, even if it was just a small amount. 

Service is good, 

service is love, 

and service makes you happy.

Try it sometime, I highly recommend it.