I am rather quiet when it comes to topics like this, because I fear I might just be deceiving myself. In as much as I think there are people who don’t feel pressured by the possessions or workings of another, I still feel we are all just—in one way—gaslighting ourselves. Peer pressure is especially very common in universities, schools and just…anywhere you have people your age or in your category.
I don’t think there’s an actual way to just deal with it. Rather, let or make it become a tiny throb just inside of you. Because there’s always better, there’s always someone far off than you, someone more educated and beautiful, someone taller and richer. There’s always someone. And in a way, that keeps balance in the world. Letting peer pressure grow inside of you, is just like allowing a rot to spread through every part of your being.
I deal with peer pressure but simply not allowing it to take form. The thought is always there. I want to engage in what others are doing to. I want to do that, or roll that way and be able to afford that. I was about to say there’s a good part of peer pressure but honestly, I don’t think it is or there is. I think it’s just that rough part of humanity that has been drilled into us to make us leveled. Peer pressure develops when comparison takes place. Comparing yourself or what you have to that of others is what kicks it off, hurdling it onto a generous start. Peer pressure is simple the need to do what others are doing, simply loaded by wanting to be a certain way because how you are or were doesn’t satisfy you enough. And no, I am not promoting stagnation or lack of self development.
It saddens me to see how driven some people are by peer pressure. It has only ever clouded me some times in my younger life and never again. Okay, that is a lie: I still face it currently. But one can be allowed to dream. Dreaming about whatever better things you want doesn’t necessarily mean you’re leaning towards the attributes gotten by peer pressure. I don’t think it does. I deal with peer pressure by not dealing with it. That probably sounds insane but I try my best not to get pulled into what others do that I am not doing. I simply turn into a blank canvas. And sometimes it’s very difficult doing that, sometimes it’s hard to ignore the pressure and I want to follow but most times laziness also pulls me back. Most things I get pressured about might take a good amount of energy from me and I simply don’t have that. So when I begin to calculate the two and two and see where that keeps me, I simply slump back and dig deeper into my bed. There’s no better way to handle peer pressure, reminding yourself of your values and ideals doesn’t necessarily work, it just delays the enviable. So I deal with it, by simple not dealing with it.
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