Personal Narrative-Stress Among Teens

Most teenagers weekend consists of going out to a family party or hanging out with friends and forming new memories and great experiences, but not all teenager weekends consist of harm befalling upon them. In my case, like most teenagers, I never imagined that I would be a victim of violence until the night I went out with a few friends to what should have been a night of regrets, mistakes, and learning experiences, but instead it ended up being a night of pain, sadness, and anger. On the night of December 22, 2002 I learned to trust my instinct instead of giving in to peer pressure, I also learned to be more vigilant towards my surroundings and lastly I discovered I could manage situations under heavy distress. Peer pressure can sometimes be a big issue among teenagers, especially among teenage boys. For instance, if one teenage boy fails to do what a fellow peer dares him to do he will be ridiculed for days after the incident occurs. Such an incident can have negative effects to a point where his peers don 't want to associate with him simply because he fail to be like most boys of his age and social group. In my case, when my friend suggested we …show more content…
On the other hand, I do like to think if I had been more experience with life itself I would not have given in to peer pressure so easily. Another aspect I also would have liked is to have been knowledgable towards the subcultures that pertain certain areas and in return I would have avoided driving through an area where violence is known to be a normal occurrence. The only great thing that came out of this tragedy was my appreciation of life to the point where I have made a career choice to helping people in the medical field in hopes to get them to appreciate life after a traumatizing