Peer pressure doesn’t just come from sketchy people trying to sell you cocaine and LSD. A lot of the time, peer pressure can sneak up on you without you even recognizing it and perhaps even without the people who are pressuring you doing it intentionally. This is where the “recognize” in “PREVAIL” comes into play — you need to understand where your mistakes and your destructive inclinations are rooted, and a lot of the time, it is peer pressure.
You need to be able to distinguish it when it appears incognito, and you need to understand that by resisting it, you are keeping yourself out of the quagmire. Even if you feel like resisting hinders your ability to “fit in,” it only does so in one way: It makes you more respectable, dignified, and self-controlled than everyone around you, so who are they to look down on you? Really, it’s the other way around — the only one who has the right to feel disdain towards the other is you, because, in the end, it is you who is making the honorable decision, placing you at the very top
