Peer Pressure — A Pressure Worthy Enough ? By Aadya Varma

We want to win,
We want to thrive.
In a world full of competition,
We want to shine.

But in this pursuit of winning,
We often forget thinking,
That does it even make us any better,
Not as a student, but as a person ?

We make friends
We make them a part of our life.
But when it comes to scoring in a test,
We strive as hard as we can to be the best.
But we forget whom we are here to detest,
Our challenges or our very own second selves!

We buy a swanky gadget,
Not judging it by it’s utility.
But just to satiate our desire,
To make our comrades admire

But let’s finally ask ourselves,
For whom are we subjecting to these doings?
When at the end of the day,
We are just losing,
The essence of friendships, the essence of our entity.