Happy October! In Texas, this is the actual start of autumnal weather – the temperature leaves the 90-degree range, and I can start to wear cardigans…for segments of 5 minutes at a time. Iced pumpkin spiced lattes for everyone! 

More importantly, this is a season of change: the leaves are turning, the drinks are changing, and we are finally hitting that stage of school where things start to get… stressful.

As college students, we strain ourselves to crazy levels of stress. We’re always scrambling around, trying to accomplish a billion and one things from our ever-growing to-do list. And we don’t accomplish everything and we’re freaking out about that? Well, that’s where today’s article comes in.

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Stress and Pumpkin Spice Bread

To keep with the autumnal theme of this article, imagine if you will that you and I are in a kitchen, baking vegan pumpkin spice bread. I’m in charge of mixing stuff together, and you are in charge of adding the ingredients into the bowl. 

We chat while we do this, and it’s going swimmingly. But then we take the bread out of the oven, and you realize that you never handed me the spices, or the vanilla extract. 

The bread is lovely on the outside, cake-like and bronze. But we taste it, and it’s…bland. Something is missing, and the bread we made is now unfulfilling…and now you’re scolding yourself for not being able to do a seemingly simple task and get your life together. 

Here I am, practically shouting at you, “It’s just a loaf of bread!” And you’re freaking out because this loaf of bread means so much more than that. Do you see where this is going?