By: Jayme Matyas

I am observant as I walk the halls.

Seeing the girls and boys I once knew.

Not everyone is the same,

Of course, I know that we change as we grow up.

Becoming wiser as the many years rush away, though some may not.

The social pressures are changing and are, perhaps, getting worse.

The faces and names that I once called friends, now barely recognizable under a whole new person, someone that gave in to the social pressures.

Those people, may or may not be happy with the choice they have made to give in to the pressures, but will keep up the image so they will gain favor by other people.

The pressure is not only coming from teachers and friends at school, but social media, other friends, and even family.

The pressures coming from those sources are as powerful as ever in this world and is waiting to grasp another person and bring them into a hole of darkness and despair.

People who hesitate and question their looks, behavior, or popularity and that is when people will use that against them to change them, and that comes from pictures on social media that lead to people trying to achieve something not realistic.

We need to see and learn about this so we can stop the pressures, that are making so many people miserable and feel bad about themselves.