Monday, July 30, 2007
peer pressure_hweechang_2
Peer pressure is all around us. Having negative peer pressure is much more worst than anything. Lets take a look and see how nasty negative peer pressure can lead a wonderful and good-behaved person to be.Jamie Ng was a very good pupil in school, having very good attendance, her results are always among the top three. She is always complimented and praised for being consistent and she is the best performer in class. But, things started to change when she was promoted to secondary three, she hanged out with this girl, Sarah. Sarah was one typical girl who can cope well with her work and yet hangs out with all those "beng" and "lian". Sadly, this does not apply to Jamie who cannot cope with her work and yet wants to hang out with all those wrong company of friends.
Everything starts to fall, her life is starting to have a big change. Her work, her results drops greatly, and she have started to escape from lessons and skip school. Gradually, not even her soul can be seen in school anymore. Her teachers are really disappointed in her, they tried their very best to help her, to change her, but nothing works.
She even started to take drugs and smoke because her friend does the same thing, thus by taking drugs and smoking, she is fit into the group of friends she hang out with. All this happen because of just two words, "peer pressure", and because of this two words, her life is ruined, and everything went haywire. Is very saddening to see such cases happen, but no matter how much we try to stop it, how much we try to prevent it, it will still happen, everywhere, anytime.
Teens just need to be accepted by the people around them, and the feeling of wanting to be accepted to extremely strong during the teen years. Their self identity have not been formed yet, is just starting to be discovered, that is why it can just simply lead to a steady state of uncertainly.
