Perhaps one of the easiest, and the most expensive ways of making friends in high school, is to get your parents to buy you clothes from the name brand stores. Other students in your class will respect you if you come to class wearing some of the clothes that are named for some of the more important designers available, but what does that get you? Sure, you can make a lot of friends that way, but is it really the best way to keep friends? Is it the most popular way to get others to like you?
High school is a time when a person is usually ready and prepared to find oneself. It is a time when the teenager becomes an older person, a young adult. It is also a very difficult time for most young adults, as peer pressure is all around the school. Who gets the best friends is usually determined not by the personality, but by the clothes that are worn, the purses that are carried, and the type of money that can be exposed. It's all about peer pressure.
Developing into a young adult takes a lot more than clothes and purses, however. A real friend is a person who is going to know you and like you for what you are and how you present yourself to others. That's the real challenge. The student who can walk around the school with the designer jeans does not always have to expose himself or herself to make and keep friends; they do this by the types of clothes they are permitted to wear. Other students with less money, however, are forced to expose their true selves, and therefore, the personality will play a larger role in the friend-making than with the teen that is permitted to wear the expensive clothes. Later in life, the young teen will find this out for himself, perhaps; but then again, he might go through life with the same attitude, relying on the expensive items like cars to draw people to like him.
Peer pressure will cause some teenagers to do things that they probably would not do at home. This is sometimes a normal situation, but it can certainly get out of hand. The teen who is drawn to doing too many things in order to just make a friend or two can become a dangerous influence on the other students in the class. This has been shown to be true in real life as it has been shown in the psychology textbook. There is no escaping peer pressure, but the well-rounded individual will generally survive this period of life unscathed while the person who is not so rounded might not.
Consider some of the items that can be purchased for the teenager in high school. There is a large array of these clothes available to both students and adults. For example, Calvin Klein has a large array of clothes, and the name is extremely popular - and the clothes are expensive. Another good example is Burberry, although the name is not quite as popular.
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