"Don't Sweat The Small Stuff - And It's All Small Stuff" is Bullshit, and You Know It
Every one has heard this phrase. It's on inspirational posters, bookmarks, and probably on some piece of decor in your grandmother's house. "Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's ALL small stuff." Guess what, people? As a law student, people love to tell you this. People love to insist that you are only causing yourself stress, that it cannot possibly be as big or as bad as you claim it is, and that your brain is the cause of your stress more than the environment around you. And if you'd just "accept that it's all small stuff " you'd be totally fine and you'd never leave law school with a high potential for addiction or mental health problems. Fuck those people. Those people have never sat in a room and been told that one in three of them will graduate with an addiction issue. Or sat in a room, on the first day of school, and been told that of every twenty five students, four will not even finish the program. That