<p><br/></p><p>Back in my day, it used to be all about peer pressure.</p><p>Not that I’m old now, but that’s beside the point.</p><p>Let’s talk about it,peer pressure.</p><p><br/></p><p>Once upon a time, peer pressure was the biggest fear of every teenager.</p><p>Your friends would get involved in something questionable, and you'd feel this overwhelming pressure to join in. Because well, what are friends for, right?</p><p>It took guts, discipline, and a strong sense of self not to give in. That was the hardest battle youth could face… or so we thought.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then my generation evolved or maybe dissolved.</p><p>I must’ve been asleep when it happened, because by the time I opened my eyes, everything had changed.</p><p>Not gradually. Drastically.</p><p>Even peer pressure didn’t survive the evolution.</p><p><br/></p><p>The name changed.</p><p>The tone shifted.</p><p>The meaning mutated.</p><p>What was once peer pressure is now something far more insidious: oppression.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oppression.</p><p>The new root of all evil.</p><p>That title used to belong to money, but not anymore.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe it’s just me, but I believe oppression is the fuel that powers this generation.</p><p>It's dressed up as a joke, camouflaged in banter, thrown around on the internet like confetti but its impact is deadly real.</p><p><br/></p><p>People don’t just want what others have anymore.</p><p>They feel oppressed by it.</p><p><br/></p><p>And so, they:</p><p><br/></p><p>Steal.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lie.</p><p><br/></p><p>Betray.</p><p><br/></p><p>Even kill,because envy now wears a costume.</p><p><br/></p><p>Let’s be honest: oppression is just jealousy in expensive makeup.</p><p>If you look closely, you’ll see all the signs.</p><p>Every symptom, every reaction, every consequence,it's all rooted in envy.</p><p>But since we’re a generation obsessed with aesthetics, we had to make jealousy look good.</p><p>So we gave it a new name.</p><p>A cooler name.</p><p>A relatable name: oppression.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because it’s harmless when someone says, "God when? You guys are oppressing me."</p><p>But it sounds off when someone admits, "Aww, I’m so jealous."</p><p><br/></p><p>Where’s the logic in that?</p><p><br/></p><p>From my perspective, it's literally the same emotion, just rebranded.</p><p>Yet somehow, one sounds cute and funny, while the other sounds bitter and shameful.</p><p><br/></p><p>Recently, I came across a story about a woman who went to extreme lengths just to stop feeling "oppressed."</p><p>Her friends had what she didn’t.</p><p>And instead of dealing with her jealousy, society handed her a new label,one that made her envy feel justified.</p><p>So she acted on it.</p><p>Recklessly.</p><p>Tragically.</p><p><br/></p><p>We can joke about it all we want, but let’s not pretend.</p><p>Oppression, the way we use it today, is nothing but modern jealousy given a trendier outfit.</p><p><br/></p><p>And honestly?</p><p>I’m still trying to find the logic in it.</p><p>But then again, this generation hasn’t made sense in a long time.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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