Standing up for what is RIGHT!

Tonight I went to church and I worked with the 1st through 5th graders. We talked about standing up for what is right. I have been thinking about this topic a lot lately. Yesterday I was hanging out with one of my friends and she had her cousin and her cousin boyfriends brother with her and we decided that we were going to go to Wal-mart and then to Buffalo Gap. They all rode with me to Wal-Mart but when we got there they all got out because my friends car was there. They wanted to ride with my friend because she would let them smoke in her car. It made me feel left out but I can't stand to smell like smoke and I think that is it awful. It is a choice that you can make but I choose to not be involved in it. Then my friends cousin wanted to go get drunk and that is when I decided to leave. I don't like being around that sort of stuff. I have never understood why someone would want to poison their body with that kind of stuff. I have also never understood why that would be fun. Standing up for what is right or what you believe in is often hard and as you get older it get so much harder. When you are little it is little things like not watching a movie that you know you shouldn't watch. Then you grow up and you form your own opinions and go by your rules and it gets so much harder to stick to what you believe because what people think starts to become important. It shouldn't matter what they think. They are not the one who really matters. I am not a person who typically cares about what others think but I hate feeling like I am being left out. I like to feel like I belong. Then I think is feeling like you belong really that important. I know that it isn't so why does it hurt so much when you are left out? This is just something that I have been thinking about lately.