Peer pressure is not always bad. There are some pressure that will compel one to do things that will turn to be for good in the life of that individual.
Most times you hear people talk about peer pressure, the good aspect of it, is always not brought out. I have had experiences where peer pressure helped someone to become better in life. Such stories are always hidden, but we paint peer to be only bad.
I had a friend when I was small and she hated school with passion. Even me don't like school that much, but I don't think I dislike it like her. Most times in the morning when she is prepared for school she will start shouting and calling on people to come and help her because she don't want to go to school. Sometimes her parents will even promise to buy her gift so that she will be motivated to go to school, all to no avail. Her parents will have to flog her from home all the way to school and still when they turn back thinking that she have finally entered her class, she run through another way. She won't come back home until evening because she knows that her parents will be at her for that. It continued for months until one day when she me a friend who loves school so much. That was the beginning of a new turn for her. The girl's father was transferred to our state from another state because he was a police officer. When they became friends she discovered that her new friend loves going to school. Every morning when the friend is going to school she comes to call her and she comes out almost immediately to follow her friend to school. We thought that it won't last, but to our surprise she kept following her friend until she too became too use to school that she started making efforts to go to school without anyone helping her or beating her. Today this lady is a barrister. Anytime I see her and start to remind her of that past, she don't want me to talk about it because she is no longer that little girl that don't like education anymore.
We have people who have positive impact on their lives because of friends and we also have people will negative impact on them because of friends. I suffered from the negative impact of peer pressure. I was mislead by a friend when I was a teenager. I started learning how to steal, lie and even sleep outside home because that is what I saw her do back then. She was a very bad influence over me. I don't even know where she is today and what has become of her, but I know that unless she took a new live her life will be miserable. Because no man wants to be with a lady who loves doing such evil things. All thanks to God who took me away from that place and I never saw her again. If I had stayed there a little more, by now I will be a single mother of six kids with different fathers.
