Pressure
02/16/2023 | 2m 42s | Video has closed captioning.
Poet, JT, performs his original piece "Pressure."
Aired: 02/16/23
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02/16/2023 | 2m 42s | Video has closed captioning.
Poet, JT, performs his original piece "Pressure."
Aired: 02/16/23
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
- My name's JT.
And this piece is called Pressure.
You see, there's this thing called pressure.
Pressure from your friends to mess up, pressure from the world that you needed not.
But when you think about it, pressure can't overcome you unless you let it.
Reason being that pressure has no physical presence.
Pressure is in the mind, consuming the element of time.
Time you need to be dedicated to creativity.
And once reality has set in you will know that pressure is not always your friend.
Pressure will make you forge life to do things that you think are right knowing it will make you crumble and fold.
And it's techniques do not become old, bringing forth mind's insecurity while trying to make things look all pretty.
And you sit back ignorant of who is really the enemy, not James, John or Jimmy, but pressure wants you to think on the contrary.
But when you think about it, pressure cannot cease to exist.
Without pressure, there is no force.
Without force, there is no momentum.
Without momentum, there is no power.
Without power, one won't grow.
Continual force on an object or person, pressure.
Influence on another, pressure.
Stressful, urgency, coercion.
I feel the influence of release and relief daintily hung out of reach.
But I feel.
I feel something new, something good.
It's a fixation on joy.
It's a smile.
It's my smile.
It's his smile.
Macro vision on self-improvement pushes the internal coercion of self-correction.
Waxing gibbous is achieved.
But regardless of the futility of existing, we find the ability to sustain, sustainably connected to the source, the ability and accepting reality of truth that's before you.
One must think the thought, one must release the thought.
One must accept the position that they are in and return to the thought with a new perspective.
Mandatory.
Pressure can come full circle if you let it.