Greetings @samminator.

One of the strongest distractions people get is from peers. Pressures from peers, friends and acquaintances have made a lot of people to lose focus in life. The truth that you need to realize is; your life should not be patterned after the standards of someone else, you have a different life and a different dream from them. So your life should not revolve around their options.

In full agreement with you, our pattern or behavior in life, under no circumstances should it imitate that of another person, even the behaviors of people very close to us, be they father, mother, brothers or friends. Excellent thoughtful post, we keep reading.