Most of the times, I ride with a colleague of mine to office. A
good thing about the ride is discussion of random topics that enlighten each of
us.
It so happened that we started discussing about one topic that
affects each of us in our life “Peer Pressure”
It is said by few great people that “You are average of the five
people you most associate with”
Right from the simplest of the decisions that we make in our
life, to the biggest of choices, the people around us have an impact.
If we go with the definition, Google defines peer pressure as
‘influence from members of one’s peer group’. In simple words, if someone has
an ability to control/modify a few things in your life, its peer pressure.
From a very small age, we grew up following the words or action
of others. To do anything we sought out the consent of others. May it be
parents or some other individual; there was someone whose words would effect on
what we do.
In a healthy way, it’s good to have people, who would guide us towards
the path of success, but what often we can see is, peer pressure preventing us
from going to a greater scale.
I feel Knowingly or unknowingly, we tend to become victim of peer
pressure, which would make us obliged to do certain things which we were not
intended to do.
Something such as because of the peer group, we end up going to
a Pub and try a pint or waste time hanging out at malls doing absolute nothing
of great value….
We may even be at such situation which would make us feel awkward
in the group to not do something which you actually know it as something of no
use or which is harmful to you.
The examples of decisions that we take because of peer pressure
are way too numerous.
It’s better for us to understand very quickly that,
“If you give someone the power to feed you, you have given them
power to starve you as well”
So be a bit careful whom you associate with and to whom you give
the liberty to affect the decisions you make.
Surround Positivity and spread the same.
