On being calm

When:

[amount of work] > [time to do it]
[not enough time to do work] = [huge amount of stress]
[huge amount of stress] = [badly-done work]
[importance of doing work well] > [importance of meeting initial deadline]...

Then the compromise turns out not to be so bad after all.

So, some poems of people who manage to cope a little better, both of which seem to work as a nice antidote to oh-God-it's-not-perfect-so-I'm-the-worst-student-ever stress:

( G. K. Chesterton, 'Gold Leaves' )

( Christina Rossetti, 'In Progress' )