"It takes nothing to join a crowd, but it takes everything to stand alone."
We reside in a community where the slightest thing contrives to influence us. Our behaviour gets chiefly molded by the people who surround us. On the one hand, this peer pressure can be obstinate. Being enclosed by strong-minded, channelized, driven, converged, and motivated people encourages us to push our boundaries to grow into a better version of ourselves. These people help us recognize our strengths and vulnerabilities. They build a somewhat positive competition with us, which keeps spurring us to surpass them. This feeling of competitiveness is not out of any wrath or malice. It's solely out of reverence and appreciation towards the other person. On the other hand, peer pressure can be contradictory. Being with aimless and frustrated selves deflects us from our course and purpose. Once we get comfortable with someone, we start getting emotionally attached to them, which compels us to become more and more like them. There are infinite reasons for this sway to occur. It's either because we admire such people to the point where we crave to devise ourselves precisely like them; or such individuals appear far more superior to us, which unknowingly discloses an inferiority complex within us. This mania engenders a lack of self esteem in us.
Rising above the expectations and criteria set up by our peers, marks the genuine upliftment of our character. If we continue walking in this crowd, we might get lost. Therefore, it takes absolute endurance and fortitude to stand up for ourselves and move out of that crowd.
"Don't let anyone hold you back.
Don't let anyone dilute you.
Don't be peer pressured into someone less than you are."
Walk out of the crowd
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