We all have daily lives and responsibilities such as work, caring for our families and our friends, and also going to school and getting an education. The pressure we all experience is continuous and is grown with different varieties but in the biggest way: things related to school, grades, friends, and our future. All these pressures are considered our responsibilities which is understandable because the things dearest to us can always destroy us the fastest. We all try and outrun destruction, people’s human nature is to try and thrive, but in the end everything usually catches up to us and we are forced to deal with problems and decisions. Each and every person is different, unique, so we all deal with this pressure and stress in different ways, including bad and/or good. We as teens are in a mental state where everything affects us, whether it’s the way one say’s something to you, to the way glances are thrown our way. Anything can set us off. We trust our friends, we believe that since we’re friends that we’re are either with you/ like you, or not “in the group” so we succumb to peer pressure. This peer pressure can be caused by many things, except we only succumb to peer pressure after we experience stress or the pressure of our daily lives and want to “take a break.” We tend to blame our lives and our responsibilities but as we surrender to the crowd we’re just lying to ourselves. Alcohol consumption and substance abuse make us lose ourselves, until we finally begin to lose ourselves completely; our morals, standards, and most of all our feelings. Teenagers tend to think they’re cool for doing what everyone is doing and trying new things, except they don’t really see that in the beginning they had to lose their opinion and say ‘yes’ for it all to start. Our mindset is to fit in and look good while trying to however, it’s really hard to get back what we once lost, ourselves in the way.