Family pressure, financial pressure, peer pressure, and environmental pressure will affect someone if he or she has no personal pressure. We are pressured to look better, have more, and want more for ourselves. One might say that putting pressure on yourself is not healthy, but I believe self-pressure is a good way to get things done; it gives you a deadline and helps you work toward meeting it.
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I remembered when I had a lot of pressure on myself on how I look, it was a competition between myself and my younger brother to who was more fit and had 6 packs, we will do shit up and avoid eating a lot as we both eat too much, for the start, it was easy but it became difficult as time went by, the pain was not the problem we encountered as we believed the saying that said no gain without pain so we had the pain motivate us. Our mother became worried about us, seeing that her food was always remaining plenty in the pot, not knowing what we were doing, she thought we had some issues we had refused to disclose to her. Now, the pressure we put on ourselves only relates to our plans. I presently feel that if I had pressured myself, my life would probably be better than it was. What I had planned to achieve at age 25 was never achieved; I still haven’t marked off some of the items I wanted to accomplish at that age. The thing about pressure is that it helps you push yourself even above limits. Sometimes, we don’t know what we are capable of and putting ourselves under pressure helps us have a better understanding of what we can and cannot do.
I am under pressure to add to my qualifications. After my college degree, I have not added any qualifications to the degree I last acquired. I started with my master’s degree, but I was unable to complete it and had to drop out for the pursuit. Presently, I am striving to be a member of the CITN, and I am presently pressured to see that I pass the exams in order to make use of the additional qualification to make something better of myself. The pressure I have now is not about looking better but about sustaining a better future for myself and being better equipped for the challenges ahead.
It might look like a painful thing to pressure yourself, but in reality, pressure helps us to discipline ourselves. In a way, pressure helps us to take command of our lives and look at them closely. Having this pain in discipline is far better than having many regrets and what-ifs in a man's life. We must also understand that self-pressure shouldn’t make one push themselves above their limit, but rather about surpassing oneself and taking oneself to where you want to be. But when you put too much pressure on yourself, you only call for a breakdown on yourself when things don’t work out the way you want them to.
Thank you for reading. My name is@rishagamo, and this is my response to the Hive Learners weekly Featured Content Week 210 Episode 03: “PERSONAL PRESSURE”.
