Peer pressure means the influence on someone to act better in an certain way. In some of our life experiences if we are not broad on understanding the importance of peer pressure in the society it will negatively affect us. I believe peer pressure is meant to act as a motivation to someone under it, but when the peer pressure comes with an emotional disturbance and Negativity talks of not being better then this can affect the person.
My experience in life has taught me that most people are often affected on peer pressure because of lack of understanding from the parent or teacher to motivate them, not to be influenced or affected in the negative way around them.
During My university Years, I was opportune to be the President of my department. We hosted a match, the male team will play soccer football, while the female team will play handball. From my experience here, engaging in sport competitions has a lot of pressure on the teams and coach because everyone expect the best from you, no one want to lose.
My two team were motivated both in positive ways and mostly negative this made them lost moral in sport, because the team they were up against was a strong team. I will be tracing my experience on how I motivated everyone to overcoming this challenge that faced us all. There were so many pressure from friends on us to do more, other departments played and did well now is our turn, But still I was motivated because I had a foundational motivated spirit vested on me by my parent, both dad and mom, telling me not to give in to weakness.
Facing the Community challenges. I faced a lot peer pressure by friends, I wouldn’t call them bad because I believe they where lost in understanding because most of them don’t have the kind of motivation I they to overcome.
The community has an influence on this domain, everyone want to be better than the other, some feel bigger of better, but tracing down this understanding to when the Bible says, let the weak say I am strong and let the poor say I am rich, this phrase was mainly to bring peace among everyone in the community so one person won’t feel better than the other. This scriptural verse has helped a lot of family so they don’t become a negative influence to the society.
Generally the Major causative agent of peer pressure Negativity is FRIENDS. Friends has also had a negative influence on me growing up, both in schools , at home and everyone around, but it is said that a child that knows what he wants can be hard to influence. No matter how much or how hard they come at you there will still be an inner spirit motivation in you to make you not loose your pace and to stay focused. My experience through this also made me see some good friends, whom I regard as brothers now. I believe peer pressure can only affect you if you haven’t discovered your self that is without self determination or discovery you will be influenced in so many ways. I was also motivated through their influence also.
My Goal on this context is to help youngsters and adults who are going through peer pressure, either from friends, community or school.
Ways to Overcome Negative Peer Pressure;
Self Determination; self determination means setting out your personal goals and making a decision for your personal self to achieve your goal or a certain. I believe at young age parent and teacher should help their children stay motivated on their dreams.
Self Discipline; This is one of the key to overcome peer pressure. To overcome peer pressure we must have full control of our thoughts, emotions, or behavior even when there is challenges around. Self discipline helps to us to know our weaknesses, and remove distractions and temptations around us.
Avoid Bad Influence Friends; This is another Key way to overcome peer pressure, Not all friends can be classified good some due to family trauma and bad community they have been affected mentally, their thoughts on everything around they is wrongly populated, this kind of friends can affect and influence your way of life and thinking. A proverbs says, show me your friend and I will show you who you are. A bad friend produces a bad thought, a good friend produces good thoughts. Be careful of the kind of friends you keep.
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