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Texting is a scourge, people said. They believed that texting is the fall of serious literacy among young people in the United States, even the world today. But actually, texting is a miraculous thing. Basically, we think about language, that has existed for at least 80.000 years. Talking is the way we used language the most. Writing is something that came along much later and we don’t know exactly when that happened. So, the first one is speech and after that, writing comes along.

Writing has certain advantages, such as, you can do things with language that are much less likely if you’re just talking. For example, look at a passage by Edward Gibbon, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” . That’s a beautiful passage, but no one talks that way. We used casual speech instead of the formal one in our daily.

You can speak like you writing. For example when someone give a speech, they became formal. That’s what people did then, speaking like writing. But after that, you also want to write like you speak. And then there was manual typewriter, electric typewriter and now we have computer keyboard. You can type easily to keep up the pace of speech and later you have to have someone to receive your message quickly. We have smartphones. This allows us to write like we speak. And that’s when texting comes in. But texting is very loose in its structure, no one cares about the capital letters or punctuation. But, you also don’t care about that when you speak.

So, texting is fingered speech. We write the way we talk. But we see this general bagginess of the structure and lack of concern with rules, and then we feels something is wrong. In this new kind of language, there is new structures coming up. For example, the word LOL which means “Laughing Out Loud” theoretically, but actually no one’s laughing.

Another example is slash (/). We used it in the lines of “We’re going to have a party /(slash) networking sessions”. But now, young people used it to change the scene or the topic of conversation. But in real life, there are ways to do it gracefully. You can’t do that when you’re texting.

So, texting these days is the new way of writing that young people are developing. Texting also is evidence of a balancing art that young people do. It’s an expansion of their linguistic repertoire.

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Stress

I believe that everyone in the world ever experienced it.

And, Kelly shared how to make stress our friends.

Her mission is to help people be happier and healthier. The study tracked 30.000 adults in the United States for eight years. Bad news is, people who experienced a lot of strees in the previous year had 43 % increased risk of dying. And it was true that people believe that stress is harmful for our health.

In the study, it found that people who experienced stress but did not view stress as harmful had the lowest risk of dying, including people who had little stress.

Stress response to heart rate goes up and blood vessels constrict, that’s one of the reason that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease. In the study, participants who viewed their stress as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed.

Octoxyn is a neuro-hormone. It fine-tunes our brain’s social instincts. But what people dont understand is that it is stress hormone.

Our biological stress response is nudgin us to tell someone how we feel, instead of bottling it up. Our stress response wants to make sure we notice when someone else in our life is struggling so we can support each other. And when our life is difficult, our stress response wants us to be surrounded by people who care about us.

Octoxyn does not only act on brain but also in the body and one of the main roles is to protect our cardiovascular system from the effects of stress. And it is the cool thing that the pysical benefits of octoxyn are enhanced by social contact and social support.

So, when we stress and we get support from people. We reales more of this hormone and our stress respone becomes healthier and we actually recover faster from stress!

And, read this!!!

How you think and act can transform your experience of stress. Choose the right one, when you choose to view stress as helpful you create the biology of courage. And when you choose to view it as harmful and connect it to other stress, you create resilence. We also can appreciate stress because stress gives us access to our hearts.

Remember that we don’t have to face stress alone!

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