PEER PRESSURE

Peer pressure is the act of being persuaded into doing certain things in order to impress and be accepted by your “friends”. 

“Friends” who pressure you into something you are not interested in are not real friends and you should cut ties with them as soon as you notice this. For other might be hard to even see it because they don’t want to lose their “friends” 

I have been pressured but as soon as they turned their backs on me, I realised that I was a fool and that was one of the lessons I don’t want to forget. Other people are only there to use you and when they are done, they spit you out like some piece of gum. Personally my friends are one of my weaknesses but I will never allow them to pressure me into something I don’t want to do. 

Peer pressure starts in so many different ways, ways that you won’t even notice. When you notice that you have been pressured, it beats down your self-esteem and leads to frustration and anger because you feel you were so naive and you ask yourself how you could let it happen to you like that. 

With real friendship comes trust and honesty, no real friend will pressure you to do things you are not comfortable with. The real friend will warn you about the bad friend, and will always be there for you whether or not you listen to them. 

Like everyone else or most people, I have also been pressured, my mother had warned me about a certain “friend” he turned my life upside down after I had given him multiples chances to fix his mistakes and like everyone else I got fed up and I moved on. He then started spreading rumors about me. But I pulled through and moved on. 

You need to sit down and be honest with yourself, evaluate your “friends” and ask yourself whether it is worth it or not. What stays will stay, what doesn’t, let it go.