“I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine – Bruce Lee . » I have always navigated my way through life by maintaining my own expectations, ignoring peer pressure to change and be something I am not. Growing up in a military family, I never had to worry about fitting in or making friends because we all instantly had something in common. I realized I took this aspect of my life for granted when I started my first year of college at a large university thousands of miles from home and my friends. I did something I wasn't proud of that year, I let peer pressure get to me for the sake of friendships that I now know weren't worth it. penalty. I let someone convince me to do something that went against my better judgment. I never realized how hard it was to make friends until I went off to college. It seemed to me that I had never found anything in common with these people. I went to a big college in Washington that ended up being a high school dump because everyone already knew each other. They didn't understand why I was different...