Peer Pressure for Against

Peer pressure is real. Like a disease it infects the mind and moves into the heart tearing the definition of your original being apart. It has no remorse, like a deadly lion on the hunt for prey it marks its weak target carefully and attacks with deadly precision. By definition, peer pressure is the strong influence exerted by those who you associate with. Peer pressure starts when kids start growing older and have a sense of the world, and an opinion to go with it. Some of us are smart enough to ward off trouble when it comes to the wrong kind of pressure, while others sadly get sucked into pressure circles (as I’d like to call them), often because they have weaknesses in their characters that cannot oppose it.

Peer pressure is not a problem experienced by children alone but by people of all ages. We are all susceptible to it, even our parents a lot of the times.
The effects of peer pressure are vast. Many people start on bad habits because of it. Peer pressure statistics indicate that students indulge in their first experiences with sex, drugs and alcohol because of it. It also has the effect of lowering the self-esteem of its victims hence ruining mental, physical and spiritual growth. Physical growth is slowed down because of the habits formed; drinking, smoking and unsanctioned sex lead to the weakening of the body by exposing it to intoxicating substances and disease. Mental growth is hindered as all the affected person can think of is pleasing his peers even to the expense of intellectual development. On the spiritual platform, biblical moral standards are abandoned because they seem outdated and ‘not cool’ as the majority likes to see it.

Speaking on those affected, a Christian poet named Janette McGhee says:

“Bad peer pressure is what occurs when morality is based on whoever is on the top of your music playlist and the media becomes your bible. You then begin to search scripture upon scripture of magazines only to find out that you are playing