“Oh don't worry you'll handle it” - One phrase people say so much to you when you tell them you're under pressure or just when they know you enough to see something is off.
Gosh I've wanted to just pinch people who say this to me (Yes I mean pinch!) like: “How can you say that to me right now when clearly I'm not handling the pressure so well”
Sometimes you even begin to feel that people just say things they deem to be fantastic advice, that in turn might actually never work for you!
It's been tough for me these past years, I mean I hadn't written - in a long time. From trying to handle my goals to dealing with life and its truckload of demands, to beating myself up and trying to be a better person! I've been a victim of pressure and believe you me at this moment in time, I still am! & it’s funny how pressure can unravel so many things about you - in this case I can say anger, frustration, enlightenment, patience and lastly character development.
However looking at it from a different perspective, I realize that going through pressure in life opens up certain doorways and in as much as it is excruciatingly painful - it is a builder for resilience and character molding.
Experiences differ and you begin to see that some people have this amazing ability to endure pressure and also literally deal with the onsets and setbacks! (How I admire such people) Some people - break down, mentally, physically, emotionally & at times spiritually.
Some people give up on themselves and decide to take the 'easy way out'.
In as much as we may never understand the different components of life, we might also never will understand how different we all are.
So how do I deal with pressure?
How do you deal with pressure!? (Comment Below) are questions, I believe many people ask themselves and others when they face pressure - be it at work, home and at school!
The more we try to be someone in this life, the more that life hits us with hard balls that we may curve or catch at times - it's not all the time that we manage to catch or curve them for sometimes they hit us hard!
It's just like the game I used to play when I was a kid in my country Zimbabwe called “Maflawu”.
Many Zimbabweans who know this game can surely agree & relate with me that this game is indeed testing but also exciting!
I link this game with my article today because just as you'd be in the field dodging the ball that's being thrown at you by people that want you out (in this case it can be people in your life or just different odds against you) you can similarly in real life have different pressures coming at you. You’ll curve the ball, you’ll get hit with the ball, you’ll catch the ball and what makes the game even more similar to life is how:
When you get hit and get called out of the game someone else inside the game can catch the ball and save you which automatically means you're back in the game! Such also is life - that when you’re facing dark times, there will always be someone out there to help you through it.
Life is like a game, It's got so many riddles and like a puzzle everything fits in somewhere with life. Everything that happens to you has happened for a cause and whatever that is happening now is still happening for a cause as well. You are fitting in the different pieces to your puzzle and the completion is surely to be met only if you see it through the end.
You can only understand if you listen and pay close attention to the world and everything that is transpiring within it and your life!
I enjoy the pressure that hits me because it makes me dwell on myself a whole lot more than I normally would! Pressure makes me realize that the more you work for something, the more pressure you'll feel, It's like climbing a mountain - the higher you get, the steeper the incline.
So feel your pressures, your pain, your joy, your sadness and all that you go through because it is doing nothing but prepare you for something bigger! Something you should not give up on as you straddle through your life events.
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