Good pressure or bad pressure

 Good pressure or bad pressure

Carlota Herrera

We always tend to feel some kind of pressures. But, have you ever think if those are internal or external pressure?

Internal pressure is everything that is inside us, and those things we internally feel. On the other hand, external pressure is the one that doesn’t depend on us, as family conflicts, diseases, etc.

Reflection 

Right now, at the age of fourteen, I fell pressure about college. Being so close to it means that you have to worry about choosing a career, picking a university, getting a scholarship, etc.

Is pressure good or bad?

Having worry is an unpleasant feeling, and means that something bad happened. However, there needs to be a balance between good and bad feelings. Bad events can lead to good moments. 

It will completely depend on how you take it. If you worry about something, it means that it can be better. Even though there are things we can’t control, and we didn’t have an option, there is always a way to improve things. 

Pressures through the years

When we are little, we tend to worry about simple things; as what we are going to get for Christmas, what ice cream flavor should we choose, birthday parties, etc. Even if we worried about our responsibilities, we did it differently. If you didn’t do the homework, or fail in the exam, the worries you say “I’m going to get scolded”.

Now, at least we must, worry about the consequences of our acts. Taking the same example, now you don’t think of a grade as a scold, but of how it will affect your future. Now those grades have an impact on entering to a college, having more opportunities, or getting a scholarship. 

What is more common? Internal or external pressure?

I think that in a world surrounded in publicity, social media and standards of how we have to be, we tend to put pressure on ourselves to achieve some things. Most of the time this external pressure is indirect, so it becomes internal as we pressure ourselves.