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Pressure. It's a combination of events
and factors, a sort of vicious cycle.
Improve yourself. You can do better. Progress. We're living
in a culture of discontentment.So we are discontented.
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All the adults are running around
trying to create the lives they've always dreamed of. As we progress,
we tend to become more materialistic, selfish and greedy, and
we forget the joy of simple living. We all want something for
nothing, so we look for better ways, faster ways, whatever, to
go higher, earn more, buy more.
We don't realize that meanwhile we're
actually tiring ourselves out mentally and physically. Ask the
simple farmer. He'd tell you he's tired after a hard day's work,
but he's happy.
We're tired after a hard day's work
-- unhappy, depressed and angry. So the parents go out to pursue
that dream. They run after it and leave the kids behind.
One
very important thing they forget is how important it is to BE
THERE for the kids. Many of them are physically there, but their
minds are elsewhere. Or else, they come home angry. The kids get
unhappy.
The kids can't
talk about their problems to their parents. They are embarrassed
to talk about it to their friends, teachers, whoever else. That
leads to stress and pressure. They compensate by compelling themselves
to do things for attention. (Like, if I get good grades, I could
get some attention, praise, whatever. Or, if I get hooked on drugs,
I could get high. Bonus: they get worried.)
If they still can't get that, they
move on to peers. (If I wear what everyone else wears, I'll fit
in. I won't feel like I'm alone in my situation. I'll have a pseudo-family.)
The more they try to compensate,
the more pressure and stress they subject themselves to. Because
the more they try, the more often they will fail (like, if you
fail once in every ten times and you try a hundred times, where
does that lead you?) and the more often they fail, they forget
about the times they succeed.
Everything surrounding us promotes this culture of "progress".
Ads, TV, technology, books. Improve yourself. You can do better.
Progress. We're living in a culture of discontentment.
So
we are discontented.
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