Under Pressure

Pressure, it can be good, or it can be bad. When I am under pressure for work, to get grades in for report cards before the deadline and a certain program closes on the computer, it’s like a race on Facebook. VERIFIED! Is a status I sometimes get jealous to see, wishing it was my status. Verified means, to us school district people, that ALL your grades are in, and everything is finished and you stand behind them and can seriously back them up with paper copies to administration, students, and parents, to prove it is a fair grade. Mind you, that is including about 8 subjects, approximately 8 to 16 grades in each subject, quite a bit of paper to convert to computer. Now common sense says to keep up on it. Each time an assignment is given, mark it right away and enter immediately. I ALWAYS do that…(insert a bit of sarcasm here). I have been keeping up much better lately in my old age I must say.

A diamond can’t be a diamond without pressure. A piece of coal will be just that without high temperature and high amounts of pressure, continually. A song keeps going off in my head as I write this… making diamonds out of us… Every time I am in a sticky situation and find my way out, I am under pressure. I have to figure my way out, and hopefully, I will remember next time (if there is one) what to do! In essence, I am becoming a diamond from a mere piece of coal, under pressure. After all, nothing will change if nothing changes. We have to make the change to see a change in our behavior, habits, moods, or lifestyle.

Are you a diamond? I am still a piece of coal working towards being a diamond, I hope. I want to be a diamond in my daughter’s life, in my husband’s life, in my mom’s life, in my stepdaughter’s life, in everyone’s life! I feel the pressure and the heat and I hope I learn my lesson the first time around so I can enjoy life more and with less pressure than the time before.

Be a piece of coal on the way to becoming a diamond.