Today i XYZ would like to share my views on peer pressure, but before being XYZ, I am a man. Yes, let me proclaim, along with you all here, I am a human being, a social animal, I live in a society, I speak to people and of course, I make friends.
Making friends is a never ending phenomenon in human life, and like all other phenomena around us, they influence our lives in various ways. And like all living beings respond to stimuli, we the human beings also respond and react to such influences and pressures quite often and thereby change ourselves in the day- to- day life.
So is friendship harmful? NO!
Is influence or pressure from a peer group always harmful? NO!
But is the influence or pressure from a peer group always beneficial?
The answer is unfortunately again an emphatic NO!
As students, we are young, most of us in teenage, our minds are volatile and we take random decisions as our mind gets easily carried away by the several factors that affect us in this particular age.
Through the media, we are aware of young children getting involved in all sorts of malpractices and anti-social activities. Young boys and girls drink, smoke and gamble in groups.it is not that one individual is bad. It is the group that makes them bad.it is the peer group that sets them into a self-destruct mode. Little do they realize that they are collaterally damaging their own bright minds which are to shape the future of this great nation.
People steal, cheat, use drugs and do other heinous activities of crime in the society not because they were born bad. People often say it is the poor circumstances which get them to do bad things. Circumstances may be bad but they do not turn people bad. What I say is that the bad people, the bad ideas and the bad groups that one makes in such situations is what gets them to do such things.
We often see parents of school children trying to make their children sit next to the smarter student. Undeniably a brighter side is the dull student improving, but an equally possible chance is the smarter student getting spoilt because of his new friend.
Every coin has a flip side. Friendship with the wrong people any day can be harmful for the best and the most capable.
We all know the story of Karna, the bravest and the boldest warrior of all time who brought about his destruction just because of his bondage with the evil minded Duryodhana.
Peer pressure transforms a common individual into a stringed puppet and makes the person incapable to react against the evils and becomes merely a bystander. It destroys one’s decision making skills and creativity as it hampers one’s own individuality.
Hence, now I believe we’d all agree that friends are like a garden of roses. Colourful and pleasant but if not handled intelligently, you are sure to be pricked by a thorn.
As I said in the beginning, to make friends is human and getting influenced is unstoppable. Hence the prerogative is with us to choose the right friends who at least not benefit us always at least cause minimum damage and influence the least negatively.
To quote Winston Churchill “I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who get there first.” So let’s choose wisely, make good friends or unless, I repeat, the writing is on the wall
“Peer pressure is simply not always beneficial.”
-Jino
Making friends is a never ending phenomenon in human life, and like all other phenomena around us, they influence our lives in various ways. And like all living beings respond to stimuli, we the human beings also respond and react to such influences and pressures quite often and thereby change ourselves in the day- to- day life.
So is friendship harmful? NO!
Is influence or pressure from a peer group always harmful? NO!
But is the influence or pressure from a peer group always beneficial?
The answer is unfortunately again an emphatic NO!
As students, we are young, most of us in teenage, our minds are volatile and we take random decisions as our mind gets easily carried away by the several factors that affect us in this particular age.
Through the media, we are aware of young children getting involved in all sorts of malpractices and anti-social activities. Young boys and girls drink, smoke and gamble in groups.it is not that one individual is bad. It is the group that makes them bad.it is the peer group that sets them into a self-destruct mode. Little do they realize that they are collaterally damaging their own bright minds which are to shape the future of this great nation.
People steal, cheat, use drugs and do other heinous activities of crime in the society not because they were born bad. People often say it is the poor circumstances which get them to do bad things. Circumstances may be bad but they do not turn people bad. What I say is that the bad people, the bad ideas and the bad groups that one makes in such situations is what gets them to do such things.
We often see parents of school children trying to make their children sit next to the smarter student. Undeniably a brighter side is the dull student improving, but an equally possible chance is the smarter student getting spoilt because of his new friend.
Every coin has a flip side. Friendship with the wrong people any day can be harmful for the best and the most capable.
We all know the story of Karna, the bravest and the boldest warrior of all time who brought about his destruction just because of his bondage with the evil minded Duryodhana.
Peer pressure transforms a common individual into a stringed puppet and makes the person incapable to react against the evils and becomes merely a bystander. It destroys one’s decision making skills and creativity as it hampers one’s own individuality.
Hence, now I believe we’d all agree that friends are like a garden of roses. Colourful and pleasant but if not handled intelligently, you are sure to be pricked by a thorn.
As I said in the beginning, to make friends is human and getting influenced is unstoppable. Hence the prerogative is with us to choose the right friends who at least not benefit us always at least cause minimum damage and influence the least negatively.
To quote Winston Churchill “I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who get there first.” So let’s choose wisely, make good friends or unless, I repeat, the writing is on the wall
“Peer pressure is simply not always beneficial.”
-Jino
That was seriously an awesome speech... hats off to your writing style .. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot... It was for a debate competition in our school.. thanks for the encouragement!
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