Fruit Punch Diary

Do you have pressure at school? Are you trying so hard to be the best, and get straight A’s that you find no time to have fun because you’re always busy studying? Is it that your best friend is always getting higher then you and he or she never seem to pay attention in class? Or is it that the kids laugh at you and bring you down when you get a low grade? Or most common; do your parents push you so hard and make it look like you “have” to be the best from everyone because school is everything?

Do you have pressure at home? Are you trying to compete everything with your bigger brother or sister, to show your parents that you are also smart? Do you get in trouble just so that your parents can notice you and see that your lacking the love and attention from them? Do you keep quiet when your parents or family members yell at you and make you look small, just because you feel it’s showing respect? Do you do everything your parents tell you to do that you don’t want to do, especially when it’s for one of their friends or co-workers?

Do you have pressure at work? Are you trying so hard to suck up to your boss so that he can like you and maybe give you a promotion? Do you work your butt off so that everyone else can see how committed you are to your job and how much you love it? Do you work late hours and be the first in the morning just to prove a point? Do you put more time into your Job then you normally do just so that you don’t fall behind?

Do you have pressure in your relationship? Is it that you are afraid to loose your love one, that you will do anything? Do you start doing this because they want too, and not because you want too? Do you start showing a soft side of you, a side that shows your weakness and that you can’t do without them? Do you start thinking on how you will handle it if you two should break up, or do you put yourself together to make things work? Are you showing extra love and attention because you find out that there are people willing to be with him/her? Do you do things because if you don’t he/she will leave you and find someone who will do what they want?

Do you have pressure amongst your peers? Is there a group you would like to be in, because everyone else who’s cool is in it? Do you smoke because all your friends are doing it? Do you have sex because they tell you it’s great? Is it that you have a boyfriend/girlfriend because your best friend has one, and you feel left out because you don’t have one? Do you lie to your parents and steal from them, because your friends are getting away with it? Do you do things your friends tell you to do because you don’t want them to stop being your friend?

There is so many pressure going on around us. And you shouldn’t feel that it’s something wrong. Pressure can build you up or break you done. It’s about being yourself, and not trying to be the person people want you to be. That way you will always find yourself getting hurt. Life is too short, to be someone else!. Be yourself, and make decisions for what you feel and believe in.

Everyone makes mistakes, and fail. I make thousands of mistakes. I’m under pressure everyday, because I want to let people see who I am, and what I am capable of. But from this day I’ve stop trying to show that side of me, and let people see it for their self, if it’s that important to them.

The reason we are under pressure, is because we want to prove a point. That we too can do it and that we are as determined as everybody else. We want to show that we too are somebody in this world. We also want the praise and glory that those get on T.V. It’s all comes down to We too want to be “successful”.

And that is why we go through so much pressure. The pressure of success, the pressure of happiness. But are we trying too hard? I really don’t have the right answer for that. What I can tell you is do it for YOU. Not for the fame, not for the praises, because people will forget you after awhile. Do it for the feeling it will give you at the end, the drive that never stops. Do it for you and no one else. And when you start putting that into your mind, the unimportant pressure will slowly ease away.

Living for others will always be a pressure, so forget that. And just do you, who cares what they think about you after. Your true friends will start to shine, when the fake ones move into the shadow.