• jasonbot@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    I’m not “Grandstanding” so much as “resisting”; I’ve been peer pressured into participating for half a decade. It’s always made me feel bad. There’s no shame in opting out.

    • spencerwi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I mean, is “other people are having fun” really something that demands a resistance?

      Or could you, perhaps, just not do it and not care whether that makes you “cool” or not?

      It’s like that bit from Community: “wear it because of them, don’t wear it because of them — either way, it’s for them.”

      Just be you, without having to have some sort of faux “resistance” to justify yourself.

      • maegul@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Sometimes communicating feelings and sentiments with others can be rather meaningful for some. Reading someone else’s articulation of thoughts and feelings that you share or resonate with but haven’t formed a clear picture of can be rather useful.

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      1 year ago

      I hope you don’t mind my asking; what’s the nature of the peer pressure to participate you’re facing?