“Everyone has got a smart phone”. That’s what Mary said when she came home from
school one day. Her mother asked her
about it. She discovered only a few
children in Mary’s class Smartphone.
Somehow they were the children everyone else wanted to be like because
their parents had more money. Mary
wasn’t deliberately telling a lie. It
seemed to her that all the children she admired had smartphone so she said
“Everyone has got a smartphone”. Have
you ever done that?
“Everyone is doing…” That is another
dangerous ‘everyone’. Teenagers use it
to persuade their parents to let them go to bad parties or to see wrong films
that they know their parents wouldn’t approve of. It is a result of peer pressure.
“I’m the only one who…” is usually
wrong as well.
“I’m the only one who doesn’t have
money to get a coke every day.”
“I’m the only one who doesn’t have a
boy-friend.”
I’m the only one who doesn’t stay up
till I am on Saturdays.”
“I’m the only one who isn’t allowed to
go to that party.”
Probably you are not the only
one. Most people in your group don’t
have or do those things either. “I’m the
only one” makes you feel sorry for yourself.
It may lead you to do things you will be sorry that you did.
“I’m the first one”
Instead of saying “I’m the only one”,
dare to be different. Rather say “I’m
the first one”. Be a strong person who
can help your friends and your class to be good people and to do good things. If you can say “I’m the first one who…” you
will find that others will soon join you.
