peer pressure

I went through a period in my life when peer pressure influenced me. It was when I was drinking pretty heavily and working in a restaurant. It was the "cool" thing to do to go out drinking after work so I did it. There was a point when I was going out drinking every night. And when I say drinking I don't just mean a couple of drinks. I mean drinking until I'm drunk. I knew I needed to slow down and stop but my friends kept influencing me to do it so I would. Luckily I finally decided I needed to get away from that crowd all together and get my life together. I moved to Florida to be with my mom for a while and later moved back to my home town. I haven't drank now in almost 3 years so I think I'm doing good. Every since then I've decided to never have negative influences in my life like that again. Especially now that I have my daughter to think of.

Not alot. That's probably mostly due to my headstrong-ness though. The whole "I follow my own path, I only do what I decide's right and I could really care less how the world thinks of me. Screw the world." attitude lol. Even though I do have a tendency to be quiet and at times shy, I usually lose the lack of confidence as soon as someone trifles with me. It just all becomes irrelevant. I can feign innocence, I'm a good liar, and actor..so people can believe what they like about me. But that won't mean it's true. They may even live under the impression I did what they wanted..but they'll be mistaken..if they push it they find out just how mistaken they were.. *winces* I'm just your regular waskly wabbit I guess.

I have never been a slave to peer pressure, I guess I am just so independent, I rather think it is pretty good being different, when I was young all my friends smoked I never did, today a few of my friends are into other stuff but I don't bother, i can quite happiluy go to their parties and not feel out at all, I think I am my own self in charge of my own life...

Yes I was able to experienced being pressured from my friends when I was still studying in college.I think all of us have experienced this before and it's just ordinary things that we did some foolishness sometimes as friends.