The Art of Unstress

As much as you'd like to deny it, unstress is a very real thing. It's probably the best feeling in the world. When you are stressed out, pretty much to the maximum, then you are relieved of said stress. Perhaps because you have finished that huge project, or the burden of learning/doing something has been taken off of you.
This happened to me yesterday, and I feel absolutely amazing.
School has been...school. And school is usually kind of stressful all the time. The thing that was stressing me out the most was accompanying. For those of you lack of followers that don't know what accompanying means, it's when I play piano for her while she sings.
And I seriously suck at it.
I have been to the point of crying because I did not want to do it at all.
But, I can't just stay in denial of this kind of stuff. So I picked up the pieces she gave me to learn, and learned them.
Well, I learned 2 of the 4 she gave me.
So I was half responsible. (So I was still in denial, whatever..)
So then the time came for me to play for her in our first practice together and play together for her teacher for the first time.
And I only knew 2 of the 4 pieces.
(this is a big deal)
I wasn't really sure of what I was going to do; I would probably just end up dropping the right hand altogether and playing the left hand. Because that's how awesome I am.
So we met, and she informed me of the greatest news that I had heard in (what felt like) a really long time.
She told me that her teacher had decided to only do 2 of the 4 songs instead of all 4.
And they just happened to be the 2 songs that I had decided to learn.
All the sudden, all my prayers about this had been answered, and all of this stress about learning the songs was just lifted off me.
I have never felt so awesome before.
Now, that's not to say that I'm not stressed at all, I definitely am about other stuff, but this was the biggest  thing stressing me for the past few weeks.
Life is so awesome, sometimes. My own painting of life isn't really turning out how I expected it to be, but it's great. That's kind of the way all paintings are. You start with a picture in your head, but sometimes it just isn't what you imagined it to be, but it's even more awesome.
Yeah.
So enjoy all of life. Enjoy the love, the hate, the jealousy, the awe, and the best friendships you'll ever have. Because life is your own painting, and will be whatever you make it out to be.