Good day, everyone, and welcome to my blog for today. It's been an amazing week dropping content from the Inleo prompt, and if you are still yet to join, follow through this post and get the link to participate in the Aprilininleo prompt. The topic for today's prompt is not new, and we probably have a peer group that we have a tight bond with one way or the other. Growing up as a young child or teenager, there's always advice our parents use to tell us each time, which is to be mindful of the friends we keep.
Sorry to go too religious, but even the bible states that show me your friend, and I will tell you who you are, and that word hits deep anytime I remember or come across it. There are no two ways about it but peer pressure is real and one way or the other we have been pressured to participate in what the friends group participates in just to feel included so we won't feel alien among the group, either way, an individual could be influenced in a good or bad way.
Peer pressure influence is at the highest level, and this is something I have experienced firsthand. Once the group is participating in an activity let's say for example everyone is smoking and you don't want to smoke anything you will find two or three people in the group trying to convince you to take the smoke and give it a shot, even when you turn it down they will continue preaching to you telling why you need to try and how powerful or good you will feel once you take the smoke. Some individuals with good discipline can still stand their ground while some after pressure will give in to the demands of the group.
Peer pressure has always been looked at in a bad way from the very start, but there are still good benefits that come with peer pressure which are not talked about more and I will say this everyone has a choice to be good or bad even if you are pressured to do something everyone has the opportunity to walk out except you are forced beyond your will to do it. In my first year in the University, I surrounded myself with hard people working when it comes to making money in a legit way and also serious with their studies and this helped me build my character in school.
Choosing to be around this circle has been my will because in the end I also want to achieve something better around the right people, who will push me to be a better person and it has worked well for me in my first year. It is important to associate with the right people who have vision and goals set and not the ones that venture into being nonchalant about their future because one way or the other their nonchalant attitude will rub off on you without you noticing it, so be careful out there guys.
So this is where I say goodbye. Thanks for stopping, and as promised, this is the link to the topic for today's prompt. Thanks once again, and have a good evening.