In Plato's Cave, Prisoners are chained inside a cave while just bein able to see shadows in thier lives. Thier perceptions of reality are only mere reflections of the truth of light in the outside world above. Eventually, one man is brought up from the cave and realizes his pst ignorance. He returns to tell his companions of the truth he hs witnessed and is killed or it. Fr me, in my life, my cave is being accepted by societal values. I believe that I need liberations from the societal values of today's modern world that contradict those things in life that I know are more important. Such things as peer-pressure, and the ideal that one needs to look and act a certain way to be "cool," are illusions or shadows in my life that I need to rise above and see the true light about the world I live in. The problem of peer-pressure is that I know it is wrong, agaisnt my moral, but yet many of my friends will succumb to it, making it very difficult at times to be my own person. They are essentially "murdered for thier beliefs. Obviously, no one my age want that to happen to them becuase we are all scared we won't be accepted for our true selves. Since the beginning of my high school career, I've seen the problem and for the most part, remained steadfast in my beliefs and now I think it has made those ieals stornger and more profoudnly set in my being. The tests from the outside cause us to to choose and use reasons for that choice. I think, for the most part, I see the ligh, instead of the shadows, in things such as drinking, drugs, etc. But to my surprise, I and many others are not murdered for our beliefs but accepted. If all could understand what I think I now understand now, I think that peer-pressure in teens would be severely reduced.