Irrationality

I am stressed out.

I am stressed out about a fake test that I am taking tomorrow alongside hundreds of other students just like me, who themselves are probably just as stressed. At some level I know my stress is irrational because 1) the test is fake, and 2) even if it weren't, my stress would do me no good.

Still, I fret. I dread the moment when I run across a swath of questions having to do with areas of the law that I have not yet reviewed.

And then I'll think to myself, "AH! Why didn't I study more?! My friends aren't like this! My friends all studied as much and as hard as they should have studied! Why can't I be more like them? I'm going to fail the California bar!!!"

(Maybe it's time for bed.)