Joy Of Learning Diaries

At any given point, you can release your most fabulous self. Don't let anyone hold you back. Don't let anyone dilute you. Don't be peer pressured into being less than you are. - Steve Maraboli Reading The Art Of Focus at the Sunday School. Peer pressure means a strong influence on a person by another person's behaviour and specific actions. It makes a person behave the same as the other, although the behaviour of the other may not be good. It is one of the significant problems of youth and societies. The primary source of peer pressure on students is their friends. A lousy friend may encourage his friend to fight, smoke, take drugs, smuggle, etc. These evil actions cause peer pressure on people. The effects of peer pressure are:- • Peer pressure hampers day to day life of people and creates hurdles in their lives. • It can cause depression in case of performance of serious actions • It creates a distraction from good works • It leads to a change in the behaviour and att

People have so many fears in life, but we can overcome them by facing them and trying out the challenges that create fear. Like everyone, I have so many fears. I am afraid of darkness, blood, scary things etc. Out of all these, my greatest fear is my future. I feel terrified when I think of my future and what I will become later. As my friends put it, it's very amusing, and I believe the same.  This fear dips me into depression when I think of how my future would look and how I would take care of my family. Specific questions arise in my mind, like  would I be able to fulfil my family's wants? I fear feeling ashamed if I fail to meet my family's demands and wishes, as they put in a lot of hard work to send me to school.  But I also believe where there is dark, there is light, too; where there is sorrow, there is happiness too! There are plenty of careers and jobs that I can choose from, and this thought gives me relaxation and relief.  This positive thought keeps my fear a