Peer Pressure Essay

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Peer Pressure is Good not only Bad Peer pressure is one of those things you learn about when your young, you never really understand it until it is staring you right in the face. Most people would think of you as a weak person if you give into peer pressure, but most people do not realize peer pressure is not only a bad thing. Peer pressure comes in a few forms one obvious one being the bad kind, and another one being when your friends push you to do something good. A majority of the times you could be pressuring someone and not knowing it, that’s not a good thing. Peer pressure shouldn’t be something you want to do to someone and shouldn’t be something you want to happen to you. Just recently, I was at a swim meet and after I warmed up I went over to look at the line up. I saw 1000 free thinking it had been a 100, 4 laps compared to 40. When I realized it was 1000 I got so nervous and wanted to tell my coach I did not want to swim it. My teammates all told me to do it and go for it. They pressured me into swimming it. I asked the coach to make sure that I was really swimming it and it was confirmed, I was. At that moment the whole race had flashed before me, I imagined the rest of the girls blowing me away, and I would come in last. On the other hand my team had told me they would cheer for me and push me to finish. I had been asking the whole time how to pace myself for this intense race, and the answers I had gotten had all been different. The assistant coach had told me how to swim it and I did just what he had told me. I didn’t look at my counter and didn’t look for walls. I just focused and ended up blanking out. As soon as I looked up I was on lap 20, half way done. Then I saw lap 35 and 37 and the red blocks indicating I was done. The last lap I had left everything I had in the pool and took 10 seconds off my last split. When I touched the wall for the
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