#Peer Pressure#Admission season# by Manisha Panchal

#Peer Pressure#Admission season#

Thoughts, behavior, fashion, and music often have a deep impact on our society. Teenagers in particular, tend to get influenced by the lifestyles of their peer group. It is person's tendency to do what the crowd does. Few individuals have the courage to resist the peer pressure and be their own selves rather than being one amongst a group. Parents play a vital role to during this phase of a teenager's life and must exhibit extreme caution when dealing with their adolescents, as they are most vulnerable to yield to peer pressure during these critical years of their lives. Society is an intricate systems that entails numerous factors to an individual's growth as a person. These factors can range from simplistic to complex; a child's upbringing in a particular neighborhood  to a person determining a meticulous career. Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you have been taught  “Don't give in to peer pressure!”-an oversimplification of a generally good principle : don't let other people tell you what to think or how to act, be your own person and make good choices. Though peer pressure isn't always bad. Listening  to your friends, and letting them affect you, can have an incredibly good influence. One should think of themselves as individuals, capable of making their own decisions and have faith to walk on the path they have chosen. Though sometimes pressure is necessary to activate the mind but 'excess of anything is bad'. So this admission season don't let yourself feel pressurized just make sure to give preference to your interest field and you will surely rock!!