Stress and Strain... Pressure... Simple concepts of Physics and Mechanics...
But they make such a huge impact on us humans.
Apply pressure beyond a certain limit, and it turns a Human into a mindless desperate animal. Don't believe me? Try to travel in the Local trains of Mumbai during peak hours. Once you get used to it, you don't even notice it in you... But when you are standing on the platform, after having been forced to let go of more than one crowded trains, you are a desperate animal. You are so desperate that you are oblivious to your surroundings. You don't care whether the thing you are trampling below your feet is your fellow passenger's luggage or the fellow passenger himself...
Apply some stress beyond a certain limit, and a perfectly intelligent human turns into a babbling fool. Don't believe me again? Just face the onslaught of the management in your company when they are only interested in finding a scapegoat, and the unfortunate one with the short straw is you...
Apply pressure beyond a certain limit, and it turns a Human into a mindless desperate animal. Don't believe me? Try to travel in the Local trains of Mumbai during peak hours. Once you get used to it, you don't even notice it in you... But when you are standing on the platform, after having been forced to let go of more than one crowded trains, you are a desperate animal. You are so desperate that you are oblivious to your surroundings. You don't care whether the thing you are trampling below your feet is your fellow passenger's luggage or the fellow passenger himself...
Apply some stress beyond a certain limit, and a perfectly intelligent human turns into a babbling fool. Don't believe me again? Just face the onslaught of the management in your company when they are only interested in finding a scapegoat, and the unfortunate one with the short straw is you...
Finally, I guess, Pressure and Stress are two variables that are "variable" in the true sense. Their values, at any given time, are not always in our hands. But how we are able to cope with them, is what makes us, or breaks us, doesn't it...?
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