How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

My question is how did you get to the top of the pole? No I’m just kidding.

Today we live in a society which puts a great amount of pressure on us. If we don’t look or act a certain way, then we do not fit in and are considered outsiders. Peer pressure is one of the most disturbing things that most of us (not just teenagers) face today. From drinking and taking drugs to how many people you sleep with are just a few things that people have to face to be considered “cool.” If I look back at when I first started high school back in 2003 and looking at the world we live in now, things are just getting worse. I can only imagine what life is going to be when we have children one day. It actually makes me physically sick to the core of my stomach what 12 year olds and up are getting up to these days. Where have morals and self-respect gone to? Where has sex before marriage gone? Are we all so desperate to be accepted into society that we are willing to throw away our own names?

       http://www.ecosuperior.org/article/is-peer-pressure-good-for-the-environment-470.asp

What worries me the most is where do the parents come into the equation here? Do they not see how their children are acting and are they not teaching their children basic morals and dignity? I am not saying I look down on these people and judge them. We should never judge! What I am saying is I hope we all learn from this. We do not need to be what society wants us to be. We are all our own individuals and we all need to make our own decisions at the end of the day and whatever decision we make we need to live with them and all bear the consequences to our actions.

If you want to leap off that pole away from society, good for you! If not, you are never going to know how to be your own person that God made you to be.

http://eatingdisorderprogram.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/i-feel-the-pressure-to-be-thin-by-samantha-spiwak/