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According to the featured contest question, yes, there are instances when peer pressure can be a good thing. I'm going to share this friend of mine from year 1, I met. She is a very intelligent and social person to some extent. I like reading at night, and it has been helping me a lot to prepare me for tests and examinations. This friend likes reading over and she made me get exposure to reading outside of the hostel and having a group reading by my other colleagues at school who understood a particular course than us. They would come over to the CBN hall to explain to us what were the challenges we had in phonetics. This course contains a lot of mathematical equations. This was how I knew that English has a mathematical formula.
My friends whom we went with were able to express their problems, and when it was my turn, I wasn't able to ask the way I was supposed to. It was a big challenge for me because I wasn't exposed to many things; speaking my feelings was a problem for me, but as get into a circle of my friends, I kept improving, communicating with boldness without fear and expressing my thoughts as it supposed to be. They influenced me to read wider, getting materials on our courses to read in the library and how to read and gain an understanding.
Furthermore, I still with a circle of friends, and one of them likes making hair, it happened I was very close to her, we lived in the hostel, and one day on our lecture-free day, she woke me up to plait her hair, I was like, I don't know how to make hair, she said she would show me how to make it. She held a mirror in her front while I was at the back, and she showed me how to start cutting the hair from the front to the back, cutting the line, I started putting my fingers to braid it to the back. The first time wasn't smooth; she told me to loosen it and start over again. I loosened it, I started all over till I got it done the way she wanted. This was how I learned how to braid from a friend who influenced me and I was happy I did it for her and myself.
The starting of the peer influence was massive. Later, I noticed that my circle of friends wanted to influence me by going out with men or going to a man's house. Though what wanted to happen had happened, and after I came back to my senses, I cut ties with them and found another clip of friends.
In this life, it's God that will pass through friends to bless you or uplift you. Always find yourself with a circle of friends who will inspire you to see beyond what you are seeing, to think out of the box, and to see a new version of yourself in life, career, academics, marriage, and other things about life and Godliness.
This post is in response to the #Hivelearners featured contest, week 153 edition 3.
I love, I care, and I forgive
I remain 
