PRESSURE...

Aahh!!! How many people have high standards which they have to live up to and maintain in order to please everyone around them? Pressures from family, friends, partners, work and in some cases from what you bring on yourself? Pressure to achieve good grades, the best of the best and no less, and that failing isn’t acceptable. Some would say that this is a cause of ‘Perfectionism’ and in a way I agree with this. I also agree that extreme pressure is also a cause of teenage suicide and can cause personal issues in people such as, disappointment, low self-esteem and poor/loss of social interaction. I don’t really have any answers as to why some people let pressure run their lives. But not all pressures are bad. Some are actually need to help us through our daily lives. We need pressure behind us to aid us to complete tasks by deadlines in a timely manner, to assist us with timekeeping and to give us that little bit of an extra kick when we need to get something started. We need to recognise the good pressures from the bad pressures in our lives and start to take control of these.