Question

Is peer pressure harmful ?

Answer 1

The famous Hollywood actor Bruce Lee, once said “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” Peer pressure is the influence you feel from a person or group of people to do something you might not otherwise consider doing. Almost everyone has experienced peer pressure before, either positive or negative. It is so easy to give in to peer pressure because everyone wants to fit in and be liked. Especially when it seems like “everyone is doing it”. Sometimes people give in to peer pressure because they do not want to hurt someone’s feelings or they do not know how to get out of the situation so they just say “yes”. The bad effects of having peers can be something that can destroy your personality

Peer pressure can result in you doing something that doesn’t fit with your sense of right and wrong. Peer pressure can influence us in more ways than on .It can affect the academic performance of students, their fashion choices, it can lead to alcohol and drug use or befriending people out of compulsion. Peer pressure can be present at school or within a broader community. It can affect people of all ages and backgrounds and can have serious repercussions in the long run. It can change the way a person thinks, behaves or acts in a social setup. It can push a person to the limits and coerce him to take some extreme steps in order to please his peers or have their acceptance. A person under peer pressure always tends to seek approval of his peers and therefore I would say acts like a puppet in their hands. A person tends to lose his or her individuality and self-worth in order to please his counterparts. The person under continuous pressure tends to lose his vision and starts looking at the world through the eyes of his peers in order to be one with them. This ongoing process of coming under pressure plays havoc with the person's heart, mind and soul this crushing his beautiful personality. Peer pressure can be mentally agonizing and emotionally draining in the long run leading to some serious consequences.

BUT , Peer pressure is not always bad.

If you are fortunate to get a good peer group, your peers can play a vital role in the shaping of your personality. You can get motivated by those who have similar aspirations and goals as you! Their way of looking at life may influence you to change for betterment. Some of your peers are your close friends, who do not pressurize you to do things but rather inspire you to change yourself. Your peer group may actually persuade you to bring about a constructive change in your personality. Peer pressure can lead you to make the right choices in life.

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Answer 2

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With the help of this, I would try to help you out with the topic. First of all let us know what's peer pressure ?

Peer pressure is nothing but the demand that society have on you. It's their wishes and demands which will make you force to impress them. Peer pressure or people pleasure certainly not very difficult things. These are something which we can say is same.

Peer pressure tries to impose it's restrictions and conditions both. It doesn't mean that peer pressure is totally wrong. One should have a pressure so that he/she can get motivated and prove them in the field they wanna be at or they are.

Peer pressure has both positive and negative aspects. If talking about the positive one, peer pressure is something which will greatly influence you to build your character and get master in a particular field. This will help you as to be a better person as well as hard working competitor for your competition.

If talking about the negative one, peer pressure may lead you to the negative things. It can affect you as a human being. You will be prone to it's side effects such as involvement in bad things. In case, if the person is able enough to fight with those he will surely get success.

Concluding the topic, what we can say is peer pressure has it's pros and cons but everything depends on us how we take it. As stated above, if the negative one is fought then the result can be a positive experience.

So definitely it's good for us.

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