Peer Pressure-Present Day Crucible?

Peer Pressure—Present-Day Crucible?
Peer pressure is something that everyone has to face at one point or another. For a lot of people, it takes the form of a re-occurring crucible. For others, it’s just a catalyst that sets them back a little. Peer pressure can be overcome, but there’s never a point where it completely stops. From the time you’re born, you are influenced by the people and things around you. Even in kindergarten, you soon learn that in order to ‘fit in’, you have to conform yourself to the atmosphere. This means that when a friend of yours wants your peanut-butter and jelly sandwich instead of their corn-dog that you will give it to them for fear of being rejected. By the end of the school year though, you realize that you don’...