Keep the right company

OVERCOMING PEER PRESSURE 2

As earlier discussed in the first part of the topic http://wp.me/p6nspd-14 I will like to emphasize that every age group on earth is being influenced or undergo peer pressure. The unique thing about the teenage group is we have very little knowledge and experience on certain topics/issues in life so our decisions when pressurized if not subjected to some litmus test of life could go wrong. And when they go wrong, they could be costly and irreversible.
For this publication, I would be sharing with us how the company we keep can help us overcome peer pressure.
A popular saying goes thus, birds of a feather flock together. Also, you are what/who you attract. From these two phrase, you will observe that the key point from our last publication on “core values” http://wp.me/s6nspd-values our values determines the kind of people we attracts.
We get acquainted with people via two major means VIZ. they either share your values and you get attracted to them or they get attracted to you. Or you share common interests or hobbies.
In both cases, there has to be a similarity for the both of you to become friends no matter how small these similarities are.
As I said in the previous posts it is either your friends pressurize you into doing positive things or negative things. Either way we all experience peer pressure.
But the beauty of this publication today is to remind us that we are responsible for the friends we keep even if we cannot control people that become acquainted with us.
After developing the right set of values, you naturally attract people that share those positive values with you. This way, the influence your friends will have on you will be for positive and not negative.
When I say positive influence, I mean challenges/ spurring each other up to live better purposeful lives and impact your community and negative the sense that you become nuisance yourself, family and their environment at large.
Keeping the right company will ensure that on a personal note you won’t violate your core values instead you will improve on them and develop better values that will make you indispensable whenever you find yourself. Then you will see, that you won’t succumb to negative peer pressure.
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Alo Ezekiel O.