Pressure, what does anyone know about pressure? I definitely know about pressure facing people going into college, people in college, and for people just in life in general. I have been through pressure all of my life. I have experienced the pressure that William Zinsser speaks of in his essay. I know about parental pressure. Pressure and I have almost become one. The question is asked, does the pressure that Zinsser speaks of in his essay still exist? Of course it still exists.
             The question that begs to be asked is who puts this pressure on me? An easier question to answer might be who does not put pressure on me? The who that puts pressure on me begins with my parents. They have put pressure on me for as long as I can remember and they will always for as long as they live.
             My earliest memory of some pressure that my parents, or at least my father, have put on me was when I first started playing baseball when I was five years old. From what I understand, I used to pick up everything with my left hand and throw things with my left hand, so naturally my father thought that I was left-handed. Well, he was wrong, I had trouble swinging the bat left-handed and catching the ball with my right hand, but my father kept telling me ,"What is wrong with you, why can't you hit the ball like to rest of the kids." "The least that you can do is catch the ball, but you can't even do that right." "I never had any trouble playing baseball." That is all I ever heard that year until someone suggested to him that I might not be left-handed, and then they switched me over to the right side, and after that I became one of the top players in the league.
             Now I know that sounds like a typical father son story but its now because all my life my father has always compared me to him and his accomplishments. Even when I did good, he would say something like &
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