No Pressure

I’ve heard this too many times in my life. The fact that you are being asked to do something, but that person doesn’t want you to feel pressured to do it immediately. Somehow even with someone saying “no pressure”, it seems to add even more pressure on you. Whether it’s meeting deadlines at work, assignments for school, or dealing with the day-to-day expectations of life, the pressure can get heavy. We all know what happens to pipes when they have too much pressure, they burst!

Just like those pipes, we too can succumb to the demands of life and eventually combust. Lately, I’ve been under a little pressure with getting my business started. I feel like I’m racing against an invisible clock! I can hear those minutes and seconds ticking away quickly, but I feel like I have only accomplished a minuscule amount of what I need done. But is all pressure truly bad for you? We know that things tend to burst when the burden or load becomes unbearable, but what if I told you that pressure also creates diamonds?

They say “diamonds are a girls best friend!”, but if that coal never felt the pressure, diamonds would cease to exist! Life is always going to throw challenges your way, but it’s up to you to decide how you want to handle those situations. Do you want to burst like a pipe and destroy everything around you? Or do you want to create something beautiful such as a diamond from the pressures of life? Take the ugliness of life and create something beautiful! Like a wise man once said, “the gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials!”