Some peer pressure can make diamonds.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. All the time people feel the effect of peer pressure is always negative and nothing good comes out of peer pressure but that is not completely true because at least 30 percent of peer pressure actually brings about something good while the other 70 percent will always bring about bad results and for that reason people conclude that the only thing that comes out of peer pressure is always negative and have nothing positive to say about peer pressure.

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As much as peer pressure pushes us into doing something bad when we are in the wrong circle, we can actually see peer pressure pushes us to do something innovative, something great, and something that can actually affect our lives positively and not negatively when we are in the right circle. Many people have something bad to say about peer pressure, and only a few people actually have something good to say about peer pressure, as so many people have made it look so bad, and the only reason people go astray, which is not so, and also the few people who peer pressure influenced positively hardly share their story, while those who it affected negatively are loud about their story and how it caused them pain, and the whole world goes with the story making peer pressure look all bad.

The truth is that how peer pressure works on you actually depends on where the pressure is coming from (that is, your circle of friends or the people pushing you); when you are in a circle where all they want to do is pursue their dreams and aspirations, you will be forced to do the same, but if you are in a circle where all they want is to do the wrong things, like drink and smoke, and do all manner of things that affect them negatively, then you will find yourself doing so. The source of the pressure determines if the aftereffects will be good or leave you in regrets.

I am not the type of student that reads months before exams, I am one of those students who starts reading a few weeks to exams and try to cover the entire semester in the space of this few weeks but I have friends who starts to read months before exams and they advised me to stop that habit of waiting until few weeks to exams before I started trying to cover everything taught in the semester as it makes it more tiring and causes me to work more and I am more stressed than others during this period but I was finding it very difficult to adapt to their style of reading but they made it a habit to call me whenever they were going to read.

It took me time to actually adapt and be comfortable with their style, but for the fact that they did not give up on me despite making excuses but instead of giving up on me they increased the pressure making sure they get me on their side. They call me hours before the time they plan on going to read to make sure I am aware and do not come up with excuses that they called me late; they kept doing so until they influenced me into reading months before exams and did not wait until a few weeks before exams before I started trying to cover. So yes, some peer pressure can actually make diamonds; not all peer pressure brings about negative results.