I believe that everyone has their own right to be able to make their own choices and have their own opinions. Often times peer pressure seems to change ones act in one way or another. Their have been plenty of times when I was put into these kinds of situations. While I was a senior in high school everyone in my group of friends started to do cocaine. Every party that we went to their were people doing it in the rooms. Up until winter break I was not really pressured into doing it because for the most part my friends knew my morals, and they knew that I would not do it. However, it all changed when we decided to go to a party in downtown Campbell. We were all in a room pre gaming, and all of a sudden one of my friends pulled out a bag of coke. Everyone in the room was down to do it, but I did not want to do it, so I just sat their silently. They started to take turns doing lines on the table. After everyone took a hit, it was finally my turn. Everyone was telling me to do it. In my head I was thinking how I didn't want to do it, but if I didn't do it I might lose all of my friends. I hesitated for a second. Then one guy says, "Hey Eric do a line, you wont." Then I thought to myself if they don't want to be my friends just because I don't want to do coke then they rant really my friends anyways, so I told them that I didn't want to do it. They just continued to take turns doing lines. It turns out that I made it a bigger deal than it really was.
It was impressive that you didn't fall into peer pressure. Especially in a room full of friends, they can definitely make you feel like you have to do it since they are. All my life my fiends from high school tried to peer pressure me into smoking weed. Whenever we were at parties they would try to make me smoke. I can say that I have never ever fell into peer pressure and smoked. It never really bothered me if they made fun of me because at the end of the day they really didn’t care. Like you said, it's not a big deal. If you lose friends because you didn't smoke, then it shows that they weren’t your true friends in the first place.
ReplyDeleteIt is really good to hear that you did not fall in to the peer pressure of your friends. Drugs are becoming more and more of a problem with the younger generations, and peer pressure is the problem. Many kids at my high school would try to pressure their friends in to trying new drugs and most of the time they would give in. Standing up for your beliefs is very important because if you dint then people take advantage of you. Real friends will not make you do anything, they accept you for who you are and your beliefs.
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