Persuasion
...th the crowd watching me, I was not as afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I were alone.” In my life I face many challenges. Many of the decisions I make could affect the outcome of my day, month, year, or life. Some challenges are small and insignificant. What I eat for breakfast or what clothes I wear will probably not affect the eternities. But when a group of people are watching me closely, sometimes they sway my decisions one direction or the other. I will do what I need to so I can be accepted. Being watched by the cool kids is full of pressure. I need to feel like I belong. If I were alone, not being evaluated by the crowd, the decisions would not be as difficult. There is a story about a man who owns a donkey. He goes into town riding in the cart the donkey is pulling. He passes a group of people who tell him he is cruel to the animal. So the man puts the donkey in cart while he pulls. As he is going over a bridge he slips a...