Don't Let Society Pressure You.

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I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners featured post. It is funny how we have a lot of people out there under so much pressure not because they want to do better for themselves but because they want to meet up with the standards set by the society, some have managed to meet those standards but cannot cope or meet up anymore and are now under a lot pressure and looking for ways to help them maintain the standard. At first it was good that they were standards as it was a to way ensure that everyone gets to work in order to meet up with the standard set but lately it feels different, the pressure that comes with not meeting up with the standard is out of the roof and is causing a lot of people to feel less of themselves or unworthy of love.

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In our world today everywhere you turn there are standards for everything; there are standards for males and standards for females, and then there are general standards that both genders must live up to, or else the society will not rate them. It's funny how the society also sets standards and has expectations for people in every job or line of work. As a pastor, there are standards to meet; as a soldier, escaping standards set by the society has become impossible because there are standards to meet and expectations as well for every line of work, and it is making it very suffocating, especially for those who cannot meet up with these set standards.

The society has set a particular age limit where you are expected to have achieved so much but then forgets that all fingers are not equal and everyone did not start on the same ground. Some people have all the support they need to achieve all that is expected of them before the age set, and some who have little or no support at all, no matter how hard they try, won't be able to achieve much before the age set. And at the end, when those with support get all they want and those without any support don't, they start to feel less of themselves and put themselves under so much pressure, taking away their happiness, leaving them with nothing but sadness, and pushing them into depression.

Societal standards have caused so much pain to individuals and even one of the leading causes of family issues, because society set a standard age for marriage family members will not let their child breathe peacefully because they have grown pass that age and when the child reacts out of frustration it becomes a bigger issue and now the child is forced to keep family at a distance for their peace and sanity. Societal standards are not so bad but don't let them define you or determine how happy you are in life because when you do that, that is when it becomes bad.

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There are points when and where societal standards become unrealistic, and one of those points is when we ignore or eliminate individual differences. Like I said before, all fingers are not equal; we have people who have a very strong support system and are not starting off from the ground, and then there are those with little or no support at all starting off from the ground. When societal standards are set without considering individual differences, it becomes unrealistic because the one starting from the ground will not be able to catch up, while the one with support will achieve all in no time.