Most kids are terrified that if they don’t do this they will be alone, with no friends, and they will appear childish, and they´ll think they are going to die because their social status is going to crash, because of what their friends tell them. So they accept to the offer, because they don’t want to be the only ones not drinking or smoking, they become someone they are not, only to keep having your “friends”. But are they really their friends? They are treating them like some toy they can take around, telling them what do or what not only to stay with them, if not they throw you out and tell everyone that you are a kid because you don’t do that. But smoking, dealing or doing drugs and drinking alcohol is damaging both the body and the mind because then teenagers do not know who they are and what is right and what is wrong because they are being fooled by their friends that what they believe isn’t true, that there is not going to be any consequences. Once you start you think that everything is going to be the same. But is it?
After this step you can’t ever go back to how it was before, your old self gets lost behind, you cross the line to the wrong side, you start drinking, then you start smoking, then drugs and there you don’t realize that because of the peer pressure and not staying true to yourself and not being able to say “no”, and being fooled by your friends, who are in the same situation, you can end up in a hospital with lung cancer, AID´s or alcoholism coma.
What happens to most teenagers is that they don’t realize that they are doing a wrong thing; they loose conscience of what is right and what is wrong. And only gain that conscience when they get to the extreme. They are so self-centered in not loosing their “friends” that they do not realize that they are ruining their bodies and power of decision. Nobody tells them that they are losing themselves.
So if you are one of these teenagers, being ordered by another one to do things you don’t want to, gain that conscience that you can always start to be true to yourself again. Don’t be a coward, say “No!” don’t be afraid to defend your rights, and if your social group doesn’t understand that, find another one that accepts you for who you are, not for what to do. It is not the end of the world, if you are conscious of what you are doing, you can find your true self that is lost somewhere inside of you, and leave that part of you who only follows other people’s rules. Because that is what you are doing, obeying them.
If you have a friend who is going through this, help him or her, because this can end up badly. If it is difficult to do, there are organizations that can help.
But remember that you always have to stay true to yourself, no matter what happens or what people tell you. Learn to say no, and do what you want and believe in you, not what other persons tell you to do.
Thank you for your time.
I hope you understand the consequences peer pressure can lead and you know that there are solutions, so that you can actually enjoy your time in high school by just being you
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