Hello Traveler!
how are you?
I know it's been a while since I last post,
and it is a loooong while,
did you miss me? cause I miss you too!
anyway! let's get on with our journey!
let's take a step unto a land of peer pressure!
a social issue!
now what is peer pressure?
now what does peer pressure exactly does to our society?
to us?
to our mind?
let me ask you a simple mindful question!
DESCRIBE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!
what came into your mind?
is it these kind of women?
or is it the beautiful personality intelligent kind?
now i've asked around on people to help me describe their kind of "beautiful women"
now what I continuously hear is the description of their physical appearance
such sayings are frequently heard:
9 out of 10 people that i've asked had successfully describe beautiful women based only
on appearance. they describe sexy as in skinny, big chested, white kind of woman.
this is non-other than a basic of
Society had dictate our vision, our mind, to only see beautiful people as they wanted us to see.
white,
skinny,
big breasts,
tall,
blonde,
red lips,
has the same race!
and not only that, they have judged people so badly based on their appearance, that there are actually
several cases of suicide attempts
PEER PRESSURE IS THE MODERN BULLY!
another journal story that i can actually tell is basing on my own experience,
I lived in Jakarta,
which means every teenager automatically looks like these:
i really don't have any comments on these,
i actually were one of them!
these are the styles, the kind of handsome men they dictate us to be.
anyone who has short hair,
non iphone cells,
are figured as geeky and deemed "not cool"
PEER PRESSURE.
deadly as it is, people are still doing it.
gossiping peer influence people to gossip.
smoking peer influence people to smoke.
drug addicts encourage people to take drugs for enjoyment.
corruptors encourage people to take money.
I can't expect you to change all at once and I can't make you!
but what I can do is to encourage you
to be the change!
be the differentiation!
be yourself!
be your own uniqueness!
choose to lead!
cause in the end.
it is just you against the world
And let me tell you!
YOU ARE BIGGER THAN THE WORLD!
peer pressure is something that is undeniably hard and re-occuring
but you are that special, you are different.
people can't take that away from you!
be the change you want to see in yourself!
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hoping to hear from you soon fellow traveler!
journey #3
Yo Renno Widjaja