Have
you ever put pressure on yourself to accomplish or do certain things
because of your age? You probably have at some point in your life.
For
instance, if you’re a young adult, you might feel pressure to figure
out exactly what you’re going to do with your life. If you’re in your
twenties, you might feel pressure to make your living or working
arrangements more permanent and official. If you’re in your thirties,
you might feel pressure to settle down and get married or have kids.
The list goes on and on.
It’s
tempting to live our lives by a set of societal expectations,
especially when we see our friends or other people our age doing things
we think we should be doing. We start comparing our lives to theirs, and
it makes us feel inferior or left behind. We feel obligated to be at
the same level as them and are sometimes willing to settle for just
about anything for the sole purpose of potential social acceptance and
validation. That is where the problem lies.
If
you’re doing something or trying to do something because you want to
feel accepted or validated, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.
Before
making a certain decision or taking a certain path in life, you need to
ask yourself why you’re doing it. Are you doing it because you want to,
or are you doing it because you feel pressured to? It’s easy to confuse
the two because subconsciously, we all want social acceptance. We all
want to feel like we’re doing something right and that we’re on the
right path.
But be honest with yourself. If you’re not ready for, don’t want, or
feel pressured to make a certain decision, then you simply shouldn’t be
making it.
The
most important person in charge of the choices you make is you.Make
sure you are taking responsibility for your own decisions, and that you
are doing what you’re doing for the right reasons
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