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"&amp;quot;Peer pressure&amp;quot; is a phrase that we are all familiar with, right? Everyone has been exposed to it in some form, and even if we don&amp;#039;t like to admit it we have all given in to it at some point. But lately, I&amp;#039;ve been thinking about just how extreme peer pressure can get. It all started with my friend Chris telling me one Wednesday night that he was thinking about going skydiving that weekend. I think the rest of the conversation went a little something like this: Me: Why, are you crazy!?(keep in mind that I am deathly afraid of heights) Chris: I don&amp;#039;t know, all my roommates are going, I don&amp;#039;t want to be the only one who doesn&amp;#039;t go! Me: Yep, you&amp;#039;re crazy. He then proceeds to tell me how he is pretty much terrified, and spent almost an hour at work researching skydiving death statistics. But seriously, let&amp;#039;s think about the implications of this for a minute. If 24-year-old men are being pressured into jumping out of planes (literally!), is there anything we can&amp;#039;t be pressured into doing?  Luckily for Chris, he ended up loving skydiving; all&amp;#039;s well that ends well. But I just can&amp;#039;t help thinking, what if some freak accident had happened and he was injured\u2014would that have been worth it just to look cool in front of his friends? What do you think CG&amp;#039;s? How often do you feel pressured to do certain things because your friends want you to? xo, Julia Beauty Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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