Life is multidimensional. There are times when it throws stones at us and there are times when it throws roses at us. Either of which life throws at us, what matters most is that we are prepared to face the outcome when it comes to us. Life can't keep going smoothly.
There is this saying that where your power, knowledge, riches, and whatever you have in life ends, is where someone else begins. So the fact remains that way and that’s one of the things that makes life interesting and unequal to everyone of us.
There are times when we also fall into pressures. Family pressure, Financial pressures, peer pressures, societal pressures and a lot more. But what matters most is how we get up from all of these pressures, not allowing them to weigh us down. If we should allow them to weigh us down there is a higher chance that getting up from the fall won't come with ease anymore.
Most times I see all of these pressures as something temporary. Only if we believe that it’s something that will come and go. Take for example, peer pressure, back then when we were younger we feel the urge to live a life similar to that of our peer group, despite the fact that we know we are not from the same family background, we are not of same birthday and place, we are totally different individuals but peer groups brought us together.
This pressure is what pushes a lot into a pit of no return. When they want to live a kind of life their friends are living. But once we realize that we are not the same and we have our differences, then life just got 80% easier.
A question that comes to mind is where are those mates of ours now? Those we studied together at elementary level? Those we studied together at the basic level? Those at the tertiary level? Where are they now? Are we still together like we were then? Or has everyone gone their own ways?
Same thing applies to every other form of pressure. We should ask ourselves these questions in response to the kind of pressure we are facing at the moment.
Societal pressure are pressures and expectations that come from the entire community or some part of the community. They are things they expect to have seen within us at some certain period in one’s lifetime and if all of these things are not met, then they begin to mount pressure on us. Examples like getting married, child bearing, building a family and a home, getting a job and many more.
All of these are what the society will want from us at some period of time, the pressure will keep coming slowly till the force weighs. But we just have to know the fact that we are all different.
On my end, i have experienced some kind of societal pressure about getting married. But I don't really care, I will just do my thing my own way. The funny part about it is that when you indulge yourself into all of this stuff they are expecting from you, they will cheer with you from a distance, and when they see you sinking no one will get closer.
So we have to be wiser when it comes to making our life decisions, suppressing life pressure in any form. We should just live our lives fulfilling our different purposes.
This is my response to the hive learners community weekly featured content on hive for the week 98 edition 2 and the topic to be discussed is SOCIETAL PRESSURE
