Peer Pressure: An Observation
An act or a change in your lifestyle you perform just because everyone around you is doing it and is an attempt from your end to fit in your peer group per say. Peer pressure has never really affected me, atleast that’s what I believe since I have never made any significant changes to my lifestyle or believes and principles just because me peer group forced me into it. Being pressured into smoking I have seen a lot of my friends and acquaintances take up drinking/smoking etc. And most of the people I ask as to why they started the reason boils down to peer pressure. “My friend wanted to do try and asked me to try it together with him/her.” Also just as a background I come from a part of India where you cannot legally buy any form of alcohol. Now this is just an observation that I have made and there is probably some study or research either proving or contradicting my statements. I have noticed that peer pressure only affects you if at some level you want it to. That is if you ever fel...
