I hope you don’t mind my asking; what’s the nature of the peer pressure to participate you’re facing?
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jasonbot@programming.dev 9 months agoI’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.
Styxia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
spencerwi@lemm.ee 9 months 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.