14 Things That Happen When You Put Way Too Much Pressure On Yourself
Some people are pushed by their parents to do their best. But some of us
are pushed by an internal pressure that can sometimes make you want to
give up and quit life.
1.
Everything you do is never good enough or holds up to the standards you
put on yourself. It makes you feel like you’re dangling a carrot above
your head that you keep moving up higher and higher, because you’re
being a total asshole to yourself, like, much more of an asshole than
anyone would ever be to anyone else.
2. When
someone compliments what you do, you don’t take it as a compliment but
as a challenge to one-up yourself in their eyes. At the very least, you
feel like whatever you do has to live up to the thing that you got
complimented on, so, in turn, what was a harmless compliment gets boiled
down to even more pressure.
3. At least once a week, you’re like, what’s the point of all of this and can I just live in a yurt somewhere?
4. You honestly have no idea why you hold
yourself to such a high standard and you know that nobody else in your
life expects you to be perfect. It’s your own stupid expectations that
keep making you fucking crazy.
5. If you are not naturally good at
something new, you find a million different reasons to never do that
thing again. Who wanted to play the damn guitar anyway?
6. Once you achieve something you had put
your mind to, that looming panic of what you can do to top that
achievement starts to creep in and you’re like, can’t I just enjoy this achievement for a moment before I have to start thinking about the next one?
7. When people say, “I do my best under
pressure!” you look at them like they just turned into a one-eyed
monster, because who would ever want to willingly put themselves under
pressure?
8. You actually sometimes wish you could
tamper down your ambition and just accept mediocrity into your life
forever and ever, amen.
9. When you talk to your friends who have
normal jobs they do for the money alone, you sometimes feel envious
because they don’t have the intense pressure to be doing more for the
work they love.
10. You wish it was possible to pursue
your passion in a peaceful way, which you may be able to do for a few
weeks, but then the pressure creeps in and you’re like, I HAVE LOST SO
MUCH TIME TO PEACE, MUST DO MORE.
11. You have developed an intimate relationship to the lump that sits in your chest when pressure comes to visit your body.
12. When people say, “You are your own worst enemy,” you laugh, because they have no fucking idea how true that is.
13. You hope that the pressure you feel to
do your best and the standards you hold yourself up to will someday pay
off in a big way.
14. You are completely, acutely aware of
how crazy you sound when you talk about the pressure you put on yourself
and feel even crazier because you ferociously nodded your head to all
these points in a perverse excitement because somebody GETS IT AND GETS
YOU AND YOUR STRUGGLE.
source:thoughtcatalog.com
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