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When I first entered high school, I was not as confident about myself as I am today. During high school years, there have always been a lot of pressures to do things that one may not want to do. In the beginning, I really wanted to be accepted by my friends and therefore was much more susceptible to pressure by them. Gradually, I started to learn to overcome these pressures and that required a lot of self discipline. One situation that stood out in which I constantly felt pressured to do started during my freshman year when my friends began smoking. I felt left out because all of them would go somewhere after school and smoke as I stayed home doing homework or playing video games. On several occasions, I tried to convince my friends to quit smoking because of the health hazards that might cause them. They did not listen and to