Saturday, September 18, 2010

Pressure as a Regressor and Rage Producer--Lesson 39

PRESSURE
Pressure to perform, pressure to please, pressure to achieve; pressure to be or not to be. While that may be the perennial question the answer is pressure regresses. Remove the pressure and you no longer feel like you are an awkward adolescent or a stumbling toddler who can barely walk—let alone speak coherent, intelligent sentences.

Pressure leaves adults exhausted. Pressure makes us forget to eat or rest as we wrestle with real or imaginary deadlines. Enough pressure exerted long enough on coal turns it into a diamond. Too much pressure on people turns them into regressed, raging lumps of coal too tired or exhausted to move.

Question: Have you felt small or little and then let out the anger and rage when pressured?

In Lesson 40 we will see how illness makes us all too small to reach the medicine cabinet.

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