Peer Pressure of Bad Influence

I decided to blog about this because I think it’s a concern that has always been there and it is an issue that is just going to repeat itself. Just today, a good friend of mine got scammed by somebody, whom he calls his friend. See this friend of mine is about 13 years old, and he is just starting to fine his wings in mixing with other people. He usually prefers staying at home to play games, but of late he has taken on a keen interest in shuffling.Today my young friend had hope to collect something from this other friend of his at 4pm. Unfortunately for my poor friend, the fella who promised to turn up at 4pm, had made him wait the whole day at the mall. Brilliant way to spend your Christmas huh. Hanging out at the mall waiting to pick up some item, which I do not think is even worth waiting for let alone even buying! Now here’s the thing, I’ve had a worry for sometime because of the unfortunate misconceptions that people have regarding people who dance the shuffle. I am not a fan of the Melbourne Shuffle, I can say out flat. i don’t think it is a fantastic dance neither do I think it shows off much skill as a dancer, I’m a traditional prude dancer. And also just listening to the music of shuffling, it is that of acid/house music.

Besides shuffling came from the Melbourne underground, which is related with clubbing, which is related with acid and house music, which can be related with drugs, which can be related with bad company…… emphasis can be! I’m not saying is. I am not going to say these shuffle dancers all have the same attitude and behave the same way, but from what I have seen around in certain areas, they are not exactly the best kind of people that I would want a young teenager mixing with. Anyways, my friend is a real sweet boy but he can be bit blurishly naive, or more so he does not know what is out there in the ‘real world’ – or what i will call the realm outside of your home. Teenagers – they are the generation that is trying to find their identity. Now the beauty of media, movies and tv, teens have been brought up with the two superficial cliques that are prominent throughout the year. The popular group and the unpopular group.

The popular group, you know the typical people who are ‘IN’. The group that is somehow either known by all, some may be rich, some my have some skill that people think is cool, or they have materials that are super bogus. The unpopular group, consists of the people that are either not known, they aren’t well off, they are just well normal. They don’t have some super personality that creates some chemistry in the air. My point here is that, teens are so susceptible to being pressurd by their peers, or the want to be “cool”. This is absolutely nothing new. And it is only those kids who are street smart or have no interest whatsoever with the superficial that will seem to turn out alright. Alright as in they won’t resort to drugs, booze and ridiculous stuff that they hope will make them look cool.

I hope parents teach their kids to know how to mix with the right group. Never mind that maybe the thing he is interested in attracts the bad crowd, but the teenager must know who are his real friends and not. Some may rip the teens off from their money, so may bully them into doing what the seniors want.. simply because they are young and inexperience of things around them. It’s crucial, the people whom they choose to mix with, will shape what they will become in the near future…so they need to how to first be aware of these crazy pack of wolves disguised as sheep and choose to pull away from them is need be. This is just a thought… I’m just trying to understand this as what I saw today, was pretty much a lecture that my parents would’ve given me years ago. On being careful and all.