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If you follow the crowd, you might get lost in it – Author Unknown

We associate peer pressure with young people especially teens. With the young it is part of their growing up. I don’t know what it is with adults but what I know is adults are also heavily influenced by their peers. They choose what their peers recommend – be it clothing, relationships, how to behave in a certain way etc.

People seek advice from their peers before making decisions sometimes serious ones about their lives. Nothing wrong with that but what is wrong is when we over-rely on our peers to make decisions for us. By so doing we lose control of our lives. We don’t live life on our terms. What I have observed with people is once they have power over your decision making, they don’t give up that power easily. The safest is never to give you’re your power of decision making.  If you have given the power of decision making away to others – it is time to get it back even if it means rattling some friendship. There is nothing wrong with seeking advice but remember the people who advice may be wrong as well. I have come to be careful of some pieces of advice which society may have accepted as the truth when in fact the advice is nothing but the majority’s opinion.

As the famous Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said;

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”.

If you think going your own way is risky, remember what is recommended by the peers may be wrong as well – they are people like you and me.

Think of those who went into marriages because of peer pressure? Many are divorced because they didn’t marry for the right reasons.

Be immune to peer-pressure and chart your own way forward.

The object of life is not to be on the side of peers, but to know who you are, your purpose, and to learn and do what you want in accordance with your purpose.

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