When I did the youth forum a few weeks ago, some people brought up the idea of pushing positive peer pressure instead of allowing negative peer pressure to exist. For example, students push each other to drink underage, which is negative. The opposite would be to flip the table and fight this form of peer pressure by getting students to push each other not to drink underage, which is positive.
I never thought about taking the concept of peer pressure and turning it around to make it a positive. As a matter of fact, I’ll take it one step further and say we don’t push the positive of things of life like we do the negatives. I think it’s our sin nature to focus on the negative. We desire drama, it’s like we want life to get complicated, we want the negative. If we don’t have problems, something must be wrong. Look at popular media and television, if you don’t have drama in your life, you must be “different”.
Staying focused on the positive is something we have to work at. It’s a skill that is only mastered when constantly worked on. I don’t think we are able to take the negatives in life and turn them into positives without making a conscious effort to work at it. It’s easy to focus on the negative day after day. However, making the effort to stay positive reaps some amazing rewards. A positive person is contagious. After some work at staying positive it will come second nature but that will take some time and effort. It’s something we have to work on, try at, and constantly strive to do. Push positive peer pressure. Push yourself to remove the negative out and see the good.
How are you working at seeing the positives in life?
-Jordan
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